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The most effective treatment for amyloidosis is to treat and control the underlying disease, if there is one. This section tells you the treatments that are the…

Every treatment can cause side effects or changes to your body and how you feel. For many reasons, people don't experience the same side effects even when given the…

Doctors use many tests to find, or diagnose, amyloidosis. Doctors may also do tests to learn which treatments could work best. A biopsy is the only sure way for the…

The symptoms of amyloidosis can vary widely, depending on the specific organ or number of organs affected by the buildup of amyloid protein(s). People with…

A risk factor is anything that increases a person's chance of developing a disease. Although risk factors often influence the development of a disease, most do not…

Because amyloidosis is rare, the diagnosis is often delayed or the condition is not diagnosed. Therefore, it is difficult to know exactly how many people are…

Background: Technetium pyrophosphate (99mTc-PYP) imaging to diagnose transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis (ATTR-CA) has been increasingly utilized. The objective of…

Background: Treatment options for patients (pts) with relapsed/refractory (RR) AL amyloidosis are limited. Daratumumab (dara) has been approved as monotherapy (DMT…

Systemic amyloidosis is caused by misfolding and extracellular deposition of circulating proteins as amyloid fibrils, resulting in the dysfunction of vital organs.…

Cardiac amyloidosis (CA), once thought to be a rare disease, is increasingly recognized due to enhanced clinical awareness and better diagnostic imaging. CA is…