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Background: Transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM) is an infiltrative cardiomyopathy that may occur in hereditary or wild-type forms. Although more than 150…

The association between amyloidosis and aortic valve stenosis has attracted considerable international attention. However, when researchers at Umeå University…

A new diagnostic tool developed at the University of Tennessee Health Sciences may soon make it significantly easier for physicians to detect cardiac amyloidosis, a…

AbstractObjective To assess the clinical value of dual-time-point planar imaging and SPECT/CT tomographic imaging of 99mTc-PYP in diagnosing transthyretin cardiac…

AbstractThe pathogenic transthyretin (TTR) gene variant c.182G>T, p.Trp61Leu (Trp61Leu) was previously reported once, as variant transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTRv…

OverviewAll ATTRwt patients on tafamidis 61 mg treatment will be clinically evaluated before treatment initiation and subsequently every six months for the…

BridgeBio Pharma is teaming up with BlackDoctor and HealthyWomen to highlight how the heart condition ATTR-cardiac amyloidosis (ATTR-CM) is being “systematically…

AbstractSystemic amyloid light-chain (AL) amyloidosis is characterized by the extracellular deposition of misfolded immunoglobulin light chains in tissues and is…

OverviewTransthyretin cardiac amyloidosis causes debilitating heart failure in older adults. The proposed research will develop a personalized exercise training…

Position: The Development Manager for the Amyloidosis Research Consortium (ARC) will be responsible for managing the full lifecycle of donor data, from initial…