Abstract

Needle biopsy of subcutaneous fat is a realiable diagnostic method for most systemic amyloidosis. We describe here a simple method to use surgical subcutaneous fat biopsies for purification of amyloid fibril proteins in patients with AL-and AA-amyloidosis. Using this method we have obtained N-terminal amino acid sequence analysis in six patients with systemic amyloidosis.

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