Case |
Age (years)/ sex | Survival (months) | Mode of death | Procedure | Amyloid distribution at necropsy/in operation specimen | Other pathological findings |
1 | 59, M | 0 | Kidney and heart failure | Necropsy | Kidneys, vessels in liver, spleen, lymph nodes, pancreas, seminal vesicles, prostate, thyroid, lungs | Subendocardial infarction; contraction band necrosis |
2 | 46, M | 0 | Right heart failure secondary to pulmonary hypertension | Necropsy | Lungs (perivascular ++), vessels in tongue, liver, lymph nodes, adrenals, testes, prostate, spleen | Pulmonary infarct |
3 | 59, M | 3.0 | Multiorgan failure; membranous colitis (operated) | Colectomy | Vascular and interstitial amyloid in submucosa and mesentery | |
4 | 50, F | 11.4 | Herpes pneumonia and encephalomyelitis | – | ||
5 | 61, M | 26.2 | Metastatic colonic adenocarcinoma | Colectomy | Vessels and mesentery of colon | |
6 | 56, M | 85.4 | Sudden death | Necropsy | Vascular and interstitial in heart; vessels in kidney | Mild acute rejection (ISHLT grade 1A) |
7 | 52, M | 116.3 | Septicaemia; ischaemic colitis | Necropsy | Vessels in colon, stomach, lung, adenals, liver, spleen, skin, testes, bladder, ureter, pancreas, bone marrow, aorta, interstitium of heart | Cardiac toxoplasmosis, graft vascular disease |
8 | 55, F | 49.0 | Heart and kidney failure | Necropsy | Myocardial vessels in heart; vessels in lung, liver, spleen, wall of colon, myometrium, thyroid, pancreas, adrenals | Graft vascular disease |
9 | 62, M | 31.7 | Kidney failure related to prostatic carcinoma | Necropsy | Vessels of lung, spleen, wall of bowel, prostate, adrenals, peripheral nerves | Oxalate nephropathy; no cardiac amyloid (only one block examined) |
10 | 35, F | 67.5 | Not applicable (alive) | – |