Abstracts tagged "rejection"

Abstract Number: 1112 • ACR Convergence 2021
Transient Elastography (Fibroscan) as a Non-Invasive Method for Detecting Amyloid Deposition in Transplanted Kidneys in Patients with AA Amyloidosis
Murat Bektaş¹, Bilger Çavuş², Ahmet Burak Dirim³, Selma Sari⁴, Volkan Şenkal², Nevzat Koca⁴, Burak Ince⁴, Besim Fazil Agargun⁵, Yasemin Yalcinkaya⁶, Bahar Esen⁶, Murat İnanç⁷, Halil Yazıcı³, Fatih Beşışık² and Ahmet Gül⁸, ¹Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey, ²Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, İstanbul, Turkey, ³Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, İstanbul, Turkey, ⁴Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Division of Rheumatology, İstanbul, Turkey, ⁵Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Department of Internal Medicine, İstanbul, Turkey, ⁶Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey, ⁷Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, İstanbul, Turkey, ⁸Division of Rheumatology, Istanbul University Istanbul School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey
Background/Purpose: Amyloidosis is characterized by accumulation of insoluble fibrils composed of different monomers in extracellular spaces of different organs, and demonstration of deposits by non-invasive…