[Corino Andrade disease].
Familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy (FAP) or Corino Andrade disease, is a very frequent amyloidosis but little known. We summarized the epidemiologic and clinical aspects of the Majorcan patients diagnosed since 1976, which constitute the fifth worldwide endemic focus of this degenerative disease, and we reported the scientific advances on FAP which are the basis to control this redoubtable degenerative process: easy diagnosis of patients and asymptomatic carriers, etiopathogenetic treatment and genetic counseling to reach the eradication. FAP must be better known because of the progressive incidence in Spain and varied symptomatology, to avoid confusions with other neurologic or extra-neurologic diseases.
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D000328:Adult; D017772:Amyloid Neuropathies / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000235:genetics / Q000628:therapy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D015316:Genetic Therapy; D006801:Humans; D016031:Liver Transplantation; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013577:Syndrome