Scientific Articles

Feb 01, 2018
Normal Scores of Deep Breathing Tests: Beware of Dysrhythmia in Transthyretin Amyloidosis
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…
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Jan 04, 2018
Treatment Patterns and Health Care Resource Utilization Among Patients With Relapsed/Refractory Systemic Light Chain Amyloidosis
Background: Treatment for patients with systemic light chain (AL) amyloidosis remains challenging. Our study aims to describe treatment patterns for both newly…
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Dec 31, 2017
Case Report: Treatment of Light-Chain Amyloidosis With Daratumumab Monotherapy in Two Patients
Immunoglobulin light-chain amyloidosis (AL) affects multiple organs, most prominently the kidney and the heart. Renal and cardiac impairment are both associated…
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Dec 19, 2017
Right Ventricular Longitudinal Strain: A Tool for Diagnosis and Prognosis in Light-Chain Amyloidosis
Objectives: Light-chain (AL) amyloidosis can lead to an infiltrative cardiomyopathy with increased wall thickness (IWT) of very poor prognosis. Our primary aim was…
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