Managing Alzheimer’s disease requires an intricate understanding of available treatments. Michelle Sorweid, DO, MPH, sheds light on anti-amyloid antibody therapy, how it works, and what patients are ...
Interviewer: Amyloidosis is a rare and possibly debilitating disease, which affects about 4,000 people a year in the United States. If left untreated, the disease can cause severe organ damage, so ...
DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My dad was diagnosed with cardiac amyloidosis shortly after his 70th birthday. It’s difficult to pronounce let alone understand. What is cardiac amyloidosis? Am I at risk if it is ...
This transcript has been edited for clarity. Michelle M. Kittleson, MD: Welcome to Medscape InDiscussion: Heart Failure. I'm your host, Dr Michelle Kittleson. This is the seventh episode of our ...
Background Amyloid transthyretin (ATTR) amyloidosis is a rare, life-threatening disease frequently manifesting with ...
Healio spoke with Joban Vaishnav, MD, director of the Johns Hopkins Comprehensive Amyloidosis Center, about the process of diagnosing amyloidosis, the importance of multidisciplinary care in patients ...
Amyloid is complicated and pathology is not destiny While Alzheimer’s has often rhetorically been compared to polio in fundraising efforts, the role of amyloid in the brain is more complex than a ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . What if Alzheimer’s disease, a neurological disorder that has confounded researchers since its identification in ...
Multiple myeloma and AL amyloidosis are conditions linked to plasma cells in the bone marrow. Multiple myeloma (MM) is a cancer affecting the plasma cells, which are mostly in the bone marrow. MM ...