Corrupted Pictures in Adobe Lightroom

Hi,
Recently my imported pictures in Lightroom have been corrupted one they have fully loaded. It does not happen to them all but increasingly up to 50% of an import is damaged. The images have the appearance of a partly devloped slide film (if anyone rembers that medium) one half or more of the picture is visible the other half is multi coloured lines, mostly pink, purple. I have tried uploading Lightroom 5.6 but this make no diffeence. Lightroom 5.5 has been running fine until a few weeks ago when this problem developed.
Has anyone else had this issue and what is the fix please?!
Mark

Hey Rikk,
For an unrelated matter, I took my iMac into Apple Genius Bar last week, and had a full diagnostic ran on it to check for any damaged hardware.
It came back completely clean and in good order. So that appears to rule out hardware issues.
I took some photos on a different, brand new, camera (Fuji X100s) with a brand new SD card, and have encountered a similar, although not as drastic, scenario, with some sort of digital corruption of the image (see screenshot attached).

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