Pharmacotherapy/Drug Therapy

The World Health Organization definition of palliative care (PC) declares that PC may be incorporated into the management of any patient with a life-limiting…

Orthotopic liver transplantation (LT) was implemented as the inaugural disease-modifying therapy for hereditary transthyretin (ATTR) amyloidosis, a systemic…

The heart and the kidneys are the most commonly involved organs in systemic amyloidosis. Cardiac involvement is associated with an increased morbidity, treatment…

Amyloidosis is a rare disease caused by extracellular deposition of proteins in an insoluble beta-pleated physical conformation. Multiple causative proteins have…

AL amyloidosis is treated with the same set of chemotherapy drugs that are used to treat multiple myeloma. However, it is important for patients with AL amyloidosis…