Pastor Kelvis Reid knew that he was taking a risk wrapping Christmas presents with his family, but he couldn't imagine spending the holidays any other way. He had just been diagnosed with a ...

It elucidates the series of events involving the dissociation, misfolding and aggregation of TTR proteins, resulting in the formation of amyloid fibrils. It also higlights various therapeutic ...

Ankylosing spondylitis affects women more often than previously thought. In the past, AS was believed to more commonly affect men, but newer research suggests the rates may be nearly equal between the ...

A quiet revolution in care is helping patients with cardiac amyloidosis, a form of heart failure that long stumped doctors. By Simar Bajaj When James Hicks, 75, was diagnosed with heart failure, it ...

Rayan Salih, MD, a third-year internal medicine resident with the Northeast Georgia Health System, who hopes to specialize in cardiology, presented the poster, “Double Trouble: Pregnancy Challenges in ...

Carpal tunnel syndrome was linked to wild-type transthyretin amyloidosis in new research, highlighting the importance of early diagnosis for better heart failure outcomes. Cardiac amyloidosis (CA) has ...

A drug that AstraZeneca singled out as one of its key potential revenue growth drivers in the next decade has failed a pivotal study in light chain amyloidosis, a rare disease with few treatment ...

AstraZeneca’s plans to get an amyloidosis drug to market look further out of reach after the pharma’s anti-fibril antibody failed to reduce deaths and hospitalizations in a key phase 3 study. The Big ...

Compared with placebo, significant improvement in survival and cardiovascular hospitalization was not observed with anselamimab in the overall patient population. Topline data were announced from a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . An AI model accurately distinguished cardiac amyloidosis from other phenotypic mimics. The model also showed ...

Cardiac amyloidosis is a heart condition in which abnormal proteins build up in the heart muscle, making it stiff and impairing its ability to pump blood. Multiple life-prolonging drug treatments for ...

One of the most serious complications of rheumatologic and autoimmune diseases can be prevented with biologic drugs, a single-center chart review suggested, and some such products may be more ...