Scientific Articles

Amyloidosis is a heterogeneous group of diseases characterised by extracellular accumulation of amyloid in various tissues and organs of the body, leading to…

Background: The heart rate (HR) response to paced deep breathing (DB) is a common test of cardiac autonomic function, where high heart rate variability (HRV) is…

Background: To investigate obesity as susceptibility factor in patients with idiopathic AA amyloidosis. Methods: Clinical, biochemical and genetic data were…

Background: Chronic physical illness has been associated with emotional distress. Chronic diseases may change usual family patterns with economic, social and family…

The most common form of systemic amyloidosis in Western countries is light chain amyloidosis. It is characterized by the deposition of a misfolded light chain in…

Rationale: Dialysis-related amyloidosis (DRA) can present rheumatic manifestations in patients on long-term hemodialysis. Typical articular symptoms with DRA…

Background: Treatment for patients with systemic light chain (AL) amyloidosis remains challenging. Our study aims to describe treatment patterns for both newly…

Immunoglobulin light-chain amyloidosis (AL) affects multiple organs, most prominently the kidney and the heart. Renal and cardiac impairment are both associated…

Objectives: Light-chain (AL) amyloidosis can lead to an infiltrative cardiomyopathy with increased wall thickness (IWT) of very poor prognosis. Our primary aim was…

Gastrointestinal (GI) perforation is remarkably rare in patients with light chain (AL) amyloidosis and has not yet been reported in patients with AL amyloidosis…