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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Shaghayegh Habibi, M.D.[2]

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In 1639, Nicolaus Fontanus autopsied a young man who had ascitis, jaundice, liver abscess and splenomegaly and his report has been the first description of amyloidosis.^[1]
In 1854, Rudolph Virchow introduced the term of amyloid as an macroscopic abnormality in some tissues.^[2]

In 1969, Finnish-type familial amyloidosis (FAF) first described as one of the causes of renal amyloidosis.^[3]

↑ Kyle RA (June 2011). "Amyloidosis: a brief history". Amyloid. 18 Suppl 1: 6–7. doi:10.3109/13506129.2011.574354001. PMID 21838413.
↑ Sipe JD, Cohen AS (June 2000). "Review: history of the amyloid fibril". J. Struct. Biol. 130 (2–3): 88–98. doi:10.1006/jsbi.2000.4221. PMID 10940217.
↑ Yamanaka S, Miyazaki Y, Kasai K, Ikeda S, Kiuru-Enari S, Hosoya T (April 2013). "Hereditary renal amyloidosis caused by a heterozygous G654A gelsolin mutation: a report of two cases". Clin Kidney J. 6 (2): 189–93. doi:10.1093/ckj/sft007. PMC 4432447. PMID 26019848.