Internal Medicine
Online ISSN : 1349-7235
Print ISSN : 0918-2918
ISSN-L : 0918-2918

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Liver Biopsy-confirmed Primary Hepatic Amyloidosis with Only Jaundice as the Initial Symptom: An Autopsy Case Report
Hirotsugu UenoAkitoshi DouharaYui OsakiAritoshi KoizumiNobuyuki YoriokaShigehiko UedaMasahiro TsutsumiHitoshi Yoshiji
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Article ID: 9189-21

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Abstract

Amyloidosis causes various symptoms in many organs of the body, but amyloidosis that presents with liver damage alone has never been reported. We treated an 83-year-old man with amyloidosis who presented with liver damage alone. The liver damage in this patient was histologically proven to be liver amyloidosis. The administration of bortezomib and dexamethasone was not effective, so he rapidly died of liver failure. An aggressive liver biopsy should be considered when unexplained jaundice is observed.

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