The Finger-nails in Chronic Hypoalbuminaemia

Abstract

biopsy showed amyloid disease. During three weeks in May, 1954, he received intravenously a total of 750 g. of albumin. This resulted in a diuresis with a 16 lb. (7.26 kg.) weight loss and a transitory rise in the serum albumin. Three months later oedema reappeared and the serum albumin was