Scientific Articles
The global spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection causing the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has…
Objective:
To map the occurrence of amyloid types in a large clinical cohort using mass spectrometry-based shotgun proteomics, an unbiased method that unambiguously…
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Patients with hereditary transthyretin (TTR) amyloidosis (hATTR) often experience disease progression after orthotopic liver transplant (POLT) due in…
Purpose of Review:
Transthyretin (TTR)-related cardiac amyloidosis is a progressive infiltrative cardiomyopathy that mimics hypertensive, hypertrophic heart disease…
Introduction:
Cardiac amyloidosis is the most common cause of infiltrative cardiomyopathy and is associated with a poor prognosis. Transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis…
Cardiac amyloidosis is a restrictive cardiomyopathy that results from the deposition of misfolded light chain or transthyretin proteins, most commonly, in cardiac…
An 83-year-old man presented with an acute history of weight loss and jaundice. He had a history of type 2 diabetes mellitus and hypertension. He consumed 30 units…
A 66-year-old woman presented with renal failure and purulent discharge associated with a chronic prosthetic joint infection (PJI) of the left knee. Her medical…
Amyloidosis is defined as abnormal aggregation of amyloid proteins. Amyloidosis can be localised or systemic affecting the lung, heart, spleen, liver and kidneys.…
Gastrointestinal involvement is frequent in systemic amyloidosis. However, amyloidosis can rarely be confined to the gastrointestinal tract or appear as a tumour…