Includes bibliographical references and index

Part 1. Introduction/General -- Aspects of the History and Nomenclature of Amyloid and Amyloidosis / Per Westermark -- Amyloid Diseases at the Molecular Level: General Overview and Focus on AL Amyloidosis / Mario Nuvolone, Giovanni Palladini and Giampaolo Merlini -- AA Amyloidosis / Amanda K. Ombrello and Ivona Aksentijevich -- The Hereditary Amyloidoses / Merrill D. Benson -- Dialysis-Associated Amyloidosis / Paweena Susantitaphong, Laura M. Dember and Bertrand L. Jaber -- Localized Amyloidoses and Amyloidoses Associated with Aging Outside the Central Nervous System / Per Westermark -- Cerebrovascular Amyloidoses / John M. Lee and Maria M. Picken
Part 2. Non-Amyloid Protein Deposits -- Differential Diagnosis of Amyloid in Surgical Pathology: Organized Deposits and Other Materials in the Differential Diagnosis of Amyloidosis / Guillermo A. Herrera and Elba A. Turbat-Herrera -- Light/Heavy Chain Deposition Disease as a Systemic Disorder / Guillermo A. Herrera and Elba A. Turbat-Herrera -- Non-Randall Glomerulonephritis with Non-organized Monoclonal Ig Deposits / Pierre Ronco, Alexandre Karras and Emmanuelle Plaisier -- Pathologies of Renal and Systemic Intracellular Paraprotein Storage: Crystalopathies and Beyond / Maria M. Picken
Part 3. Diagnosis -- Diagnosis of Amyloid Using Congo Red / Alexander J. Howie -- Diagnosis of Minimal Amyloid Deposits Using the Congo Red Fluorescence Method: A Review / Reinhold P. Linke -- Thioflavin T Stain: An Easier and More Sensitive Method for Amyloid Detection / Maria M. Picken and Guillermo A. Herrera -- Fat Tissue Analysis in the Management of Patients with Systemic Amyloidosis / Johan Bijzet, Ingrid I. van Gameren and Bouke P. C. Hazenberg -- Generic Diagnosis of Amyloid: A Summary of Current Recommendations and the Editorial Comments on Chaps. 12-15 / Maria M. Picken -- Routine Use of Amyloid Typing on Formalin-Fixed Paraffin Sections from 626 Patients by Immunohistochemistry / Reinhold P. Linke -- Amyloid Typing: Experience from a Large Referral Centre / Janet A. Gilbertson, Toby Hunt and Philip N. Hawkins -- Options for Amyloid Typing in Renal Pathology: The Advantages of Frozen Section Immunofluorescence and a Summary of General Recommendations for Immunohistochemistry (Chaps. 17-19) / Maria M. Picken -- Amyloid Typing: Immunoelectron Microscopy / Laura Verga, Patrizia Morbini, Giovanni Palladini, Laura Obici and Vittorio Necchi, et al. -- Classification of Amyloidosis by Mass Spectrometry-Based Proteomics / Ahmet Dogan
Part 4. Ancillary Studies of Amyloidosis -- Laboratory Support for Diagnosis of Amyloidosis / David L. Murray and Jerry A. Katzmann -- Bone Marrow Biopsy and Its Utility in the Diagnosis of AL Amyloidosis and Other Plasma Cell Dyscrasias / Sujata Ramamurthy, Lawreen H. Connors and Carl J. O'Hara -- Laboratory Methods for the Diagnosis of Hereditary Amyloidoses / S. Michelle Shiller, Ahmet Dogan, Kimiyo M. Raymond and W. Edward Highsmith
Part 5. Organ Involvement in Amyloidoses -- Amyloidoses of the Kidney and Genitourinary Tract / Maria M. Picken -- Cardiac Amyloidosis / Carmela D. Tan and E Rene Rodriguez -- Amyloidosis of the Gastrointestinal Tract and Liver / Oscar W. Cummings and Merrill D. Benson -- Peripheral Nerve Amyloidosis / Adam J. Loavenbruck, Janean K. Engelstad and Christopher J. Klein -- Clinical and Pathologic Issues in Patients with Amyloidosis: Practical Comments Regarding Diagnosis, Therapy, and Solid Organ Transplantation / Jay S. Dalal, Kevin Barton and Maria M. Picken -- Emerging Therapies for Amyloidosis / Merrill D. Benson -- Modern Therapies in AA Amyloidosis / Amanda K. Ombrello -- Medicolegal Issues of Amyloidosis / Timothy Craig Allen -- Amyloidosis from the Patient's Perspective / Muriel Finkel