Scalloped Pupils in Familial Amyloidosis
- 30 October 1975
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 293 (18) , 914-915
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm197510302931808
Abstract
THE purpose of this report is to call attention to a pupillary sign of dominantly inherited amyloidosis. We encountered the sign, reported in 1952 by Andrade,1 in one of two brothers who were already known to have amyloidosis. Its presence in a woman with peripheral neuropathy correctly led us to the diagnosis of amyloidosis.Case ReportsCase 1. A 44-year-old man from a large kinship with a dominantly inherited disorder characterized by peripheral neuropathy and nephropathy had a progressive peripheral polyneuropathy. Amyloid was found on sural-nerve and kidney biopsies. He had opacities of the vitreous of both eyes. The right . . .Keywords
This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
- Ocular Manifestations of Hereditary Primary Systemic AmyloidosisArchives of Ophthalmology (1950), 1955
- A PECULIAR FORM OF PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHYBrain, 1952
- Muskelatrophie bei AmyloidoseZeitschrift für die gesamte Neurologie und Psychiatrie, 1924