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HERRERA URIBE, Sebastián; MONTOYA CASTILLO, Mariana; BERLINGHIERI-PEREZ, Juan David y RICO-MESA, Juan Simon. Sarcoidosis and secondary Amyloidosis, an uncommon association. CES Med. [online]. 2018, vol.32, n.1, pp.61-66. ISSN 0120-8705. https://doi.org/10.21615/cesmedicina.32.1.7.
Sarcoidosis is a chronic granulomatous disease, frequently attributed to environmental antigens (organic and inorganic) and infections. However, it is quite common not to find a clear cause behind this pathology. Alternatively, secondary amyloidosis is characterized my Amyloid AA protein deposition in different tissues, which is associated with chronic inflammation. Nonetheless, it is extremely uncommon to find both sarcoidosis and secondary AA amyloidosis simultaneously provided that there is no a clear causality relationship between both. We present an interesting case of a patient with this uncommon duality.
Palabras clave : Sarcoidosis; Amyloidosis AA; Hypercalciuria.