DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My dad was diagnosed with cardiac amyloidosis shortly after his 70th birthday. It's difficult to pronounce let alone understand. What is cardiac amyloidosis? Am I at risk if it is ...

Managing Alzheimer’s disease requires an intricate understanding of available treatments. Michelle Sorweid, DO, MPH, sheds light on anti-amyloid antibody therapy, how it works, and what patients are ...

This transcript has been edited for clarity. Michelle M. Kittleson, MD: Welcome to Medscape InDiscussion: Heart Failure. I'm your host, Dr Michelle Kittleson. This is the seventh episode of our ...

Transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTR) is not one disease, but a cluster of related conditions. At their core, they stem from a disorder that develops when normal proteins produced by the liver suddenly ...

Healio spoke with Joban Vaishnav, MD, director of the Johns Hopkins Comprehensive Amyloidosis Center, about the process of diagnosing amyloidosis, the importance of multidisciplinary care in patients ...

Amyloid heart disease occurs when amyloid fibrils build up in the heart, making it more difficult for the heart to pump blood around the body. Eventually, this can lead to heart failure. People can ...

It can be tough to share the news of a genetic health condition, but doing so empowers your relatives to take charge of their health. ATTR occurs when the protein transthyretin (TTR), which is made in ...

Multiple myeloma and AL amyloidosis are conditions linked to plasma cells in the bone marrow. Multiple myeloma (MM) is a cancer affecting the plasma cells, which are mostly in the bone marrow. MM ...

When Sally Cox was diagnosed with light chain amyloidosis (AL) in 2019, she was shocked. Not only had she never heard of the rare disease that causes abnormal proteins (or amyloids) to build up in ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — Denham Springs nurse Megan Alford raises awareness about amyloidosis, a rare disease that can lead to organ failure, every year after her mother died in 2020 at ...