Scientific Articles

Systemic amyloidosis occurs when one of a growing list of circulating proteins acquires an abnormal fold, aggregates and gives rise to extracellular amyloid…

Cardiac amyloidosis (CA) has been believed to be a rare disease for a long time, but recent sophisticated diagnostic modalities demonstrate that a considerable…

Objectives: Immunoparesis (IP) is a risk factor associated with an unfavourable outcome in several plasma cell disorders. It has been suggested that its presence in…

Pulmonary amyloidosis is a rare disease that incorporates deposition of amyloid microfibril material in the lung parenchyma. The condition generally presents as an…

Very few prospective clinical trials have been conducted in advanced cardiac AL amyloidosis due to the rarity of the disease and challenging clinical course of the…

AL amyloidosis is a rare plasma cell dyscrasia characterized by multi-organ involvement and poor prognosis. We retrospectively evaluated the organ response (OR) and…

Amyloid tends to deposit in the gastrointestinal tract, which, being easily accessible, is often the target organ for a pathological diagnostic examination.…

Purpose: Among patients with familial amyloidosis, mutation in the transthyretin (TTR) protein is the most common type. Patients with TTR amyloidosis have been…

Amyloidosis is a condition characterized by the extracellular deposition of amyloid, a fibrillary substance consisting of low-molecular-weight protein subunits.…

The amyloidoses are a group of systemic diseases characterized by organ deposition of misfolded protein fragments of diverse origins. The natural history of the…