Secondary Amyloidosis in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Study of 18 Patients Admitted to Rikshospitalet University Hospital, Oslo, from 1962 to 1998

Abstract

Our findings strengthen the previous impression of an approximately 3-fold increased preponderance in males, with at least 10-fold increased frequency in CD compared with UC, and with a possible relationship to suppurative complications and extraintestinal manifestations, as well as an increased risk of having a bowel resection. The increased survival seems to be due to the introduction of renal transplantation.