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Primary amyloidosis surgery
Introduction
Overview
Overview
Organ-specific transplant may need to be done, depending on the organ involved. However, surgery is not commonly done in patients with amyloidosis, since it is usually a systemic disease that requires treatment of the underlying cause.
Surgery
Surgery
- Patients with symptomatic localized laryngeal amyloidosis and large supraglottic masses require surgical management.[1]
- Cardiac transplant may need to be done for patients with cardiac amyloidosis.[2]
- Organ-specific transplant may need to be done, depending on the organ involved.
References
References
- ↑ Kennedy TL, Patel NM (June 2000). “Surgical management of localized amyloidosis”. Laryngoscope. 110 (6): 918–23. doi:10.1097/00005537-200006000-00005. PMID 10852504.
- ↑ Estep JD, Bhimaraj A, Cordero-Reyes AM, Bruckner B, Loebe M, Torre-Amione G (2012). “Heart transplantation and end-stage cardiac amyloidosis: a review and approach to evaluation and management”. Methodist Debakey Cardiovasc J. 8 (3): 8–16. PMC 3487570. PMID 23227279.
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