LETTER
Anti-TNF-
for treatment of amyloidosis associated with Crohns disease
1 Servicio de Reumatología, Pabellón "Hospital Civil", Hospital Regional Universitario Carlos Haya, Málaga, Spain
2 Servicio de Reumatología, Hospital Regional Universitario Carlos Haya, Málaga, Spain
3 Servicio de Reumatología, Hospital Universitario La Princesa, Madrid, Spain
Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Dr A Fernández-Nebro
Servicio de Reumatología, Pabellón "Hospital Civil", Hospital Regional Universitario Carlos Haya, Plaza del Hospital Civil s/n, 29009 Málaga, Spain; afernandezn@uma.es
Keywords: amyloidosis; Crohns disease; spondylarthropathy; anti-tumour necrosis factor
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We wish to comment on the case reported by Iizuka and colleagues (Gut 2006;55:7445) of a patient who experienced a reduction in creatine levels from 4 to 2 mg/dl after three weeks of treatment with infliximab for amyloidosis associated with Crohns disease. Unfortunately, no details were provided of other concomitant factors, such as volume depletion or drugs, which may have affected baseline creatinine levels and their later course, irrespective of amyloidosis, or of the results of proteinuria observed in 1992.
In our experience,1 anti-TNF-
therapy has a rapid effect on proteinuria but not on renal function. In our patients it took several months (the most rapid decrease was from 1.6 to 0.94 mg/dl in three months) for serum creatinine levels to decrease by (mean (SD) percentage since baseline) 8.5 (16.6)% (range 21.4 to 39.4) after 70 (44) weeks (range 2120), and only 36% of patients experienced a
4 Department of Internal Medicine, Akita University School of Medicine, Akita, Japan
Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Dr M Iizuka
Department of Internal Medicine, Akita University School of Medicine, 1-1-1 Hondo, Akita 010-8543, Japan; maiizuka@doc.med.akita-u.ac.jp
Relevant Article
- Infliximab as a treatment for systemic amyloidosis associated with Crohns disease
- M Iizuka, S Konno, Y Horie, H Itou, K Shindo, and S Watanabe
Gut 2006 55: 744-745.[Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]
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