Cardiac Amyloidosis Masquerading as Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy: Co-existence or Coincidence? by Madhu Shukla, Jagdish Chander Mohan

Subjects: “…cardiac amyloidosis…”
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Nonsecretory Multiple Myeloma and AL Amyloidosis Presenting with Nephrotic Range Proteinuria by Ozlem Beyler Kilic, Ali Kemal Oguz, Ihsan Ergun, Dilek Ertoy Baydar, Meltem Ayli

“…Nonsecretory multiple myeloma (NSMM) is the absence of a detectable monoclonal protein in serum and urine of a multiple myeloma (MM) patient and immunoglobulin light chain (AL) amyloidosis is a significantly rare complication. A case of NSMM with AL amyloidosis and nephrotic range proteinuria is presented. …”
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Inotersen to Treat Polyneuropathy Associated with Hereditary Transthyretin (hATTR) Amyloidosis by Christopher Robinson, Cynthia Pham, Alec M. Zamarripa, Chase S. Dugay, Christopher A. Lee, Amnon A. Berger, Avi Landman, Elyse M. Cornett, Hisham Kassem, Alan D. Kaye, Ivan Urits, Omar Viswanath, Latha Ganti

“…# Background Amyloidosis is a group of diseases with the common pathophysiology of protein misfolding and aberrant deposition in tissue. …”
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A Rare Cause of Secondary Amyloidosis: Common Variable Immunodeficiency Disease by Ali Kemal Kadiroğlu, Yaşar Yıldırım, Zülfükar Yılmaz, Hasan Kayabaşı, Yahya Avcı, M. Serdar Yıldırım, M. Emin Yılmaz

“…So the patient was diagnosed with AA type of amyloidosis secondary to common variable immunodeficiency disease. …”
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Incidence of Tuberculosis and Amyloidosis among Sudanese Patients Presented with Enlarged Nodes by Ahmed Abdalla Agab Eldour, Entisar Najeeb Mohmed Salih, Hussain Gadelkarim Ahmed

“…To determine the incidence of tuberculous lymphadenitis and amyloidosis in enlarged lymph nodes (LN). Methodology. …”
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Beta-2 microglobulin-associated amyloidosis: A forgotten link to remember by Javier Arias-Alcala, Celia Novas- Moreno, Carlos Novillo-Sarmiento, Isabel Lopez-Lopez, Sagrario Soriano, Alejandro Martin-Malo, Cristian Rodelo-Haad

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Pathological Diagnosis of Systemic Amyloidosis in a New Zealand White Rabbit by LIN Qingqing, DAI Jinlong, CHEN Zhisen, GUO Jianmin, YANG Wei

Subjects: “…amyloidosis…”
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Serum Biomarkers in Transthyretin Amyloidosis: An Overview of Neurofilaments, Cardiac, Renal, and Gastrointestinal Involvement by Valeria Guglielmino, Francesca Vitali, Angela Romano, Guido Primiano, Maria Ausilia Sciarrone, Marco Luigetti

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The Hidden Cost of Untreated Paragangliomas of the Head and Neck: Systemic Reactive (AA) Amyloidosis by Erkan Dervisoglu, Murat Ozturk, Mehmet Tuncay, Gulhatun Kilic Dervisoglu, Yesim Gurbuz, Serhan Derin

“…We report a case of a 51-year-old man who was diagnosed with systemic reactive (AA) amyloidosis in association with untreated glomus jugulare and glomus caroticum tumors. …”
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Real-world tafamidis experience in hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis with peripheral neuropathy in Brazil by Luiz Felipe Pinto, Marcus V. Pinto, Paula Accioli, Gabriela Amorim, Renata Gervais de Santa Rosa, Moises Dias, Mariana Guedes, Carlos P. Gomez, Roberto C. Pedrosa, Marcia Waddington-Cruz

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Secondary amyloidosis with concomitant gastric GIST and gastric adenocarcinoma - A case report by Ankita Soni, Nishant Batta, Shefali Mehmi, Vikram Narang, Bhavna Garg, Harpreet Kaur

Subjects: “…aa amyloidosis…”
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Accuracy of Established Prognostic Staging Systems for Cardiac Transthyretin Amyloidosis in the Tafamidis Era by Maximilian Leo Müller, MD, Sebastian Spethmann, MD, Daniel Messroghli, MD, Anna Brand, MD, Isabel Mattig, MD, Katrin Hahn, MD, Ulf Landmesser, MD, Bettina Heidecker, MD

“…Background: Biomarker-based prognostic staging systems, including the National Amyloidosis Centre (NAC) and the Mayo staging systems, are widely-used but have only been validated for treatment-naive patients with cardiac transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTR-CA). …”
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New trends in AA amyloidosis with renal involvement: a single-center experience by Nídia Marques, Catarina Oliveira-Silva, Ana Pinho, Ana Teresa Nunes, Susana Sampaio, Ana Oliveira, Isabel Tavares

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Diaphragmatic Amyloidosis Causing Respiratory Failure: A Case Report and Review of Literature by Aleksey Novikov, Horatio Holzer, Robert A. DeSimone, Ghaith Abu-Zeinah, David J. Pisapia, Tomer M. Mark, Raymond D. Pastore

“…Neuromuscular respiratory failure is a rare complication of systemic immunoglobulin light chain amyloidosis. We describe a case of a 70-year-old Caucasian man with multiple myeloma who presented with worsening dyspnea. …”
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Tissue Sampling using a Submucosal Tunnelling Technique for Indefinite Gastric Amyloidosis by Hideki Kobara, Makoto Oryu, Hirohito Mori, Shintaro Fujihara, Noriko Nishiyama, Yasuhiro Goda, Taiga Chiyo, Tae Matsunaga, Maki Ayaki, Tatsuo Yachida, Toshiaki Nakatsu, Tsutomu Masaki

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Prevalence of Isolated Atrial Amyloidosis in Young Patients Affected by Congestive Heart Failure by Lia Millucci, Lorenzo Ghezzi, Giulia Bernardini, Daniela Braconi, Piero Tanganelli, Annalisa Santucci

“…Atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP), whose amyloid is responsible of isolated atrial amyloidosis (IAA), is known to play an important role in the pathophysiology of congestive heart failure (CHF). …”
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Lactobacillus Endocarditis-Associated Glomerulonephritis Complicated by anti-Coagulant Nephropathy and Renal Amyloidosis by Mitchell Moosavi, Jonathan E. Zuckerman

“…Furthermore, the patient’s renal biopsy revealed several frequently overlooked concomitant findings including anti-coagulant nephropathy and renal amyloidosis.…”
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A prospective interventional study on efficacy of fractional carbon dioxide laser in primary cutaneous macular amyloidosis by Roshany Sakthibalan, Brinda G David, Roshni Menon

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A Surgically Treated Case of Ureterovesical Amyloidosis of the Bladder in a Patient with Idiopathic Thrombocytopenia by Sung Han Kim, Weon Seo Park, Jae Young Joung, Kang Hyun Lee, Jinsoo Chung, Ho Kyung Seo

“…Transurethral resection of the bladder mass was performed to confirm amyloidosis involvement in the ureterovesical junction of the bladder and ureter. …”
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Transthyretin-Related Familial Amyloidosis Polyneuropathy with Spinal Cord Damage: A Case Report by Liu H, Huang C, Du Y, Liu J, Ren X, Wang H, Ye J, Zhou H, Duan Z

“…Hailin Liu,1,* Chao Huang,1,* Yanjiao Du,1 Jiacheng Liu,1,2 Xiangyang Ren,1 Huilin Wang,1 Jingna Ye,1 Haitao Zhou,1 Zhihui Duan1 1Department of Neurology, Luoyang Central Hospital Affiliated to Zhengzhou University, Luoyang Cerebrovascular Disease (Stroke) Clinical Medical Research Center, Regional Medical Center for Neurological Diseases of Henan Province, Luoyang, People’s Republic of China; 2Xinxiang Medical College, Xinxiang, People’s Republic of China*These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Zhihui Duan, Department of Neurology, Luoyang Central Hospital Affiliated to Zhengzhou University, Luoyang Cerebrovascular Disease (Stroke) Clinical Medical Research Center, Regional Medical Center for Neurological Diseases of Henan Province, Xigong District, Luoyang, Henan, 471000, People’s Republic of China, Tel/Fax +0086-0379-63892044, Email 54487843@qq.comIntroduction: Transthyretin protein-related familial amyloidosis polyneuropathy (TTR-FAP) is an autosomal dominant genetic disease caused by mutations in the TTR gene. …”
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