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This rare sporadic disease is characterized by deposits of amyloid throughout the organs of the body, but particularly in the kidney. There is proteinuria and chronic wasting with diarrhoea shown if the liver or bowel is affected. Diagnosis is not easy, but urine creatinine and urea nitrogen are elevated. Kidney biopsy is definitive. There is no treatment.