Amyloidosis is a rare condition that causes an abnormal protein called amyloid to build up in the body. ... liver, or heart. This type used to be called secondary amyloidosis. Beta-2 Microglobulin ...

Liver transplantation: Until the recent approval of drug therapies for hATTR amyloidosis, liver transplantation was the only available treatment.

A woman presented with AA amyloidosis that was found to be caused by a genetic lesion in an inflammatory hepatocellular adenoma that led to overproduction of interleukin-6. Resection of the liver t ...

Elsie soon learned the cause - cardiac amyloidosis. "We used to think of it more as a rare disease," says Dr. Carly Fabrizio of Temple Health. But Dr. Fabrizio says heart failure specialists like ...

The advance is being hailed not just for amyloidosis patients but also as a proof-of-concept that CRISPR could be used to treat many other, much more common diseases. It's a new way of using the ...