Cardiac amyloidosis in the elderly

As early as 1850, Virchow found a deposit between human tissue cells that exhibited a starch-like color response when exposed to iodine. Virchow calls it amyloid, and will call the tissue in which it is deposited, amyloidosis. It has been proved that the so-called amyloid is actually a protein composed of different components. It is more appropriate to call it amyloid.

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