Ulcerative colitis associated with seropositive rheumatoid arthritis / 대한내과학회지

ABSTRACT

We report a case of a 47 years old woman who had secondary renal amyloidosis due to rheumatoid arthritis. She admitted our hospital due to generalized edema, weakness and polyarthralgia, and had been diagnosed as having rheumatoid atrthritis and treated irregularly with anti-rheumatic drugs for 3 years. She had nephrotic range proteinuria (24 hour urine protein was 3.8 gm/day), hypoallbuminemia and pitting edema on both lowers. In kidney biopsy, amyloid (AA type) was deposited in renal glomerular, tubule and vessel walls. We diagnosed secondary renal amyloidosis.