Scientific Articles

Light chain (AL) amyloidosis is a devastating, complex, and incurable protein misfolding disease. It is characterized by an abnormal proliferation of plasma cells (…

A woman presented with AA amyloidosis that was found to be caused by a genetic lesion in an inflammatory hepatocellular adenoma that led to overproduction of…

Amyloids result from the aggregation of a set of diverse proteins, due to either specific mutations or promoting intra- or extra-cellular conditions. Structurally,…

Secondary, AA, amyloidosis is a rare systemic complication that can develop in any long-term inflammatory disorder, and is characterized by the extracellular…

Importance: Cardiac amyloidosis is an underdiagnosed disease and is highly fatal when untreated. Early diagnosis and treatment with the emerging novel therapies…

Background: Pulmonary is an uncommon site of extramedullary involvement in multiple myeloma (MM). Diffuse parenchymal amyloidosis as pulmonary manifestation of MM…

A 74-year-old female presented with a 6-month history of easy bruising as manifested by purpura after minor trauma to her face. Her physical examination was…

To summarize distinct clinical characteristics and prognoses associated with and validate the novel hematologic response criteria in Chinese light-chain amyloidosis…

Amyloid A (AA) amyloidosis is a rare but serious complication of chronic inflammatory diseases like rheumatoid arthritis (RA), causing progressive organ dysfunction…

Background: Recent progress in amyloid positron emission tomography (PET) has enabled the targeted imaging of cardiac amyloidosis with accuracy. We performed a…