Amyloidosis
Description
- Amyloidosis - extracellular deposition of misfolded protein in a characteristic beta-pleated sheet structure, resistant to normal proteolytic degradation - causes progressive organ dysfunction wherever it accumulates; the haematological perspective centres on AL (light chain) amyloidosis, arising from a clonal plasma cell disorder
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