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The Spectrum of Renal Diseases Found by Kidney Biopsy in Turkey
- CAVIT SÖKMEN, M.D.; and
- A. ILHAN ÖZDEMIR, M.D.
- Requests for reprints should be addressed to A. Ilhan Özdemir, M.D., Medical Research Laboratory, Meyer Memorial Hospital, 462 Grider St., Buffalo, N. Y. 14215.
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The frequency of renal diseases of different etiologies as discovered on kidney biopsy has been fairly consistent in series reported by various authors (1-10). However, the present report of a large series of renal biopsies performed in Ankara, Turkey, is specifically different from the reports from North America and from several European countries because of the frequency of unsuspected amyloidosis found on renal biopsy and its lack of association with chronic suppuration. Rather, in about half the cases of renal amyloidosis, familial Mediterranean fever appeared to be the cause of the amyloid deposition. The frequency of amyloid renal disease and
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Acknowledgment
We are greatly indebted to Drs. N. Eranil, S. Tanay, A. U. Özkan, D. Bulay, and K. Bacaci for helping in the interpretation of biopsies and to Drs. W. H. Waugh and R. R. Siegel for helping in the preparation of this article.
Article and Author Information
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From Department of the Second Internal Medicine, Ankara Medical School, University of Ankara, Ankara, Turkey.
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- Received February 6, 1967.
- Accepted February 10, 1967.
