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Case Reports
. 2017 Apr;55(4):265-267.

Systemic Amyloidosis in a Teenage Boy With Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Farzaneh Motamed  1 , Rita Bagherian  1 , Gholamhossin Adalat  1 , Mohammad Hassan Moradinejad  1 , Nilofar Hajizadeh  1 , Mohammad Vasei  2 , Mehrzad Mehdizadeh  3 , Nima Rezaei  4
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Case Reports

Systemic Amyloidosis in a Teenage Boy With Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Farzaneh Motamed et al. Acta Med Iran. 2017 Apr.
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Abstract

Systemic amyloidosis is a very rare complication of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The reported cases of secondary amyloidosis in children with IBD are much fewer than those reported in adults. Herein, a teenage boy with Crohn's disease is presented who developed nephrotic syndrome due to renal involvement secondary to amyloidosis, whereas the patient was under treatment with corticosteroid and 6-mercaptopurine. To our best knowledge, this is the first reported case of secondary amyloidosis in a teenage Iranian boy with Crohn's disease.

Keywords: Children; Inflammatory bowel disease; Systemic amyloidosis.

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