Our understanding of renal diseases with structured deposits has improved in the last two
decades with the development of new diagnostic techniques that also changed the role of …

Electron Microscopy of Renal Glomerular Amyloidosis Page 1 ELECTRON MICROSCOPY OF
RENAL GLOMERULAR AMYLOIDOSIS ELECTRON microscope investigations on renal …

Amyloidosis is an uncommon group of diseases in which soluble proteins aggregate and
deposit extracellularly in tissue as insoluble fibrils, leading to tissue destruction and …

As reported in the previous chapter (Part I) the term amyloidosis refers to the deposition of
an amorphous substance defined by the presence of fibrillary structure by electron …

Amyloid deposits have particular ultrastructural appearance with 7 to 10 nm-diameter fibrils.
Amyloid is defined by its tinctorial affinity, which includes Congo red positivity, which must …

Context.—A disease associated with amyloid deposits, called amyloidosis, is associated
with characteristic electron microscopic appearance, typical x-ray pattern, and specific …

Renal amyloidosis: classification of 102 consecutive cases SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library
Online vol.28 número3 Ensaios recentes na doença poliquística renal autossómica dominante …

Immunohistochemical amyloid classification was performed on plastic embedded renal
biopsies tissue of 18 patients with generalized amyloidosis using two different techniques …

Six patients with glomerulonephritis and glomerular proteinaceous deposits constituted by
fibrillar ultrastructures similar to those of amyloid but lacking the Congo red tinctorial affinity …

A retrospective study was conducted to investigate whether there was a correlation between
the histological pattern of renal amyloidosis, the chemical type of amyloid protein involved …