Crohn’s Disease Complicated By Rectal Amyloidosis: A Case Report

Abstract

Digestive amyloidosis is a disease linked to the deposition in different organs of the digestive system of amyloid substance. There are two forms, AL amyloidosis or primary amyloidosis; A for amyloidosis and L for immunoglobulin light chain and amyloidosis secondary to chronic inflammation is the AA phenotype. We report the case of a patient with no major medical history suffering from chronic colic Crohn’s disease, with a long history of medical treatments before the introduction of anti-TNFα.mis, who was complicated by rectal AA amyloidosis, this this incidental discovery on biopsy of the rectal submucosa, without another identifiable underlying etiology.