Intravesical dimethyl sulfoxide instillations in the treatment of secondary amyloidosis of the bladder.

Nurmi, M J; Ekfors, T O; Rajala, P O; Puntala, P V · J Urol · 1990

case_report · Level V

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Abstract

A-22-year-old woman with long-standing rheumatoid arthritis and secondary amyloidosis of the bladder had recurrent profuse macroscopic hematuria. She was treated with intravesical dimethyl sulfoxide instillation every 2 weeks for 1 year. She remained asymptomatic during the treatment and at 6 months. Progressive disappearance of amyloid from the superficial mucosa of the bladder was demonstrated in sequential histological examinations.

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