Amyloidosis (Overview, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Causes, Treatment)

Systematic Amyloidosis

Systematic amyloidosis is when the amyloid build-up is higher in many body tissues and organs throughout the body. Systematic amyloidosis is a serious condition, in which the chances of the impairment of body organs is most likely to happen. It can affect any organ like the liver, kidneys, heart, skin, and spleen. At serious stages, it can lead to renal amyloidosis, cutaneous amyloidosis, hepatic amyloidosis, and cardiac amyloidosis.

The systematic amyloidosis has further different types:

  • Immunoglobulin Light Chain amyloidosis (AL)
  • Auto-immune amyloidosis (AA)
  • Beta2 microglobulin amyloidosis (Abeta2m)
  • Familial amyloidosis (ATTR)