Education
Dec 21, 2017
Introduction:
Amyloidosis is a heterogeneous disease that results from the deposition of toxic insoluble beta-sheet fibrillar protein aggregates in different…
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…
Nov 03, 2017
Cardiac amyloidosis (CA) has been believed to be a rare disease for a long time, but recent sophisticated diagnostic modalities demonstrate that a considerable…
Oct 19, 2017
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…
Oct 14, 2017
Pulmonary amyloidosis is a rare disease that incorporates deposition of amyloid microfibril material in the lung parenchyma. The condition generally presents as an…
Oct 05, 2017
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…
Sep 26, 2017
AL amyloidosis is a rare plasma cell dyscrasia characterized by multi-organ involvement and poor prognosis. We retrospectively evaluated the organ response (OR) and…