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Dialysis-associated amyloidosis
1Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, London, UK.
Renal Failure
|January 1, 1993
Abstract:
Dialysis arthropathy (DA) and carpal tunnel syndrome are debilitating complications caused by dialysis-associated amyloidosis. They arise after several years of hemodialysis with cuprophane and their onset can be delayed with the use of high-flux dialysis. Serum C-reactive protein is elevated in patients with dialysis arthropathy, indicative of inflammatory processes. X-rays show periarticular bone cysts and erosive spondyloarthropathy. High-flux dialysis improves DA, but transplantation remains the best treatment.