ICD-11 classes
05 Endocrine, nutritional or metabolic diseases
Metabolic disorders
Other metabolic disorders
5D00 — Amyloidosis
5D00.1 — AA amyloidosis

ICD-11 5D00.1 — AA amyloidosis

AA amyloid is due to the deposition of the acute phase reactant serum amyloid A protein (SAA) in glomeruli where they are seen as Congo red binding fibrils which immuno- stain specifically for SAA. Chronic inflammation is responsible. Other organs are also involved in this systemic disease.

The diagnosis includes nothing.

The diagnosis excludes nothing.

It has no clarifying diagnoses.