Screening for transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy in everyday practice

RM Witteles, S Bokhari, T Damy, PM Elliott, RH Falk… - JACC: Heart Failure, 2019 - jacc.org
… significance (45), this is not a rare scenario in the evaluation of a patient with suspected
ATTRwt amyloidosis. We recommend mass spectrometry as the preferred method for …

Diagnosis and screening of patients with hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis (hATTR): current strategies and guidelines

MD Benson, NR Dasgupta, R Rao - Therapeutics and Clinical Risk …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
… that forms amyloid fibrils … amyloidosis is determined by the amyloid-forming protein and
the organ predilection. This review will focus on transthyretin amyloidosis, a form of amyloidosis

Transthyretin amyloidosis

MD Benson, T Uemichi - Amyloid, 1996 - Taylor & Francis
… Peripheral neuropathy is the major clinical manifestation of transthyretin amyloidosis‘. This
… neuropathy does not occur in all patients with transthyretin amyloidosis and, indeed, many of …

Suspicion, screening, and diagnosis of wild‐type transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy: a systematic literature review

K Bay, F Gustafsson, M Maiborg… - ESC heart …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
… Studies referred to in this connection included a study documenting the risk of false
positive immunostaining for TTR amyloid in patients with AL amyloidosis, 142 and studies …

Management of transthyretin amyloidosis

A Condoluci, M Théaudin… - Swiss medical …, 2021 - research-collection.ethz.ch
… For patients with systemic ATTR amyloidosis, TTR amyloid detection and characterisation
in one anatomical site is sufficient to make the diagnosis [ I, C]. A positive bone scintigraphy (…

Inotersen treatment for patients with hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis

MD Benson, M Waddington-Cruz, JL Berk… - … England Journal of …, 2018 - Mass Medical Soc
… The liver is the primary source of systemic transthyretin protein. Liver transplantation has …
hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis, but continued deposition of wild-type transthyretin amyloid

Frequency of hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis among elderly patients with transthyretin cardiomyopathy

A Maestro‐Benedicto, P Vela… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
transthyretin amyloidosis is the most frequent form of ATTR-CM found in the elderly, hereditary
transthyretin amyloidosis (… among elderly ATTR-CM patients, identify predictors of ATTRv …

Tafamidis treatment for patients with transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy

MS Maurer, JH Schwartz, B Gundapaneni… - … England Journal of …, 2018 - Mass Medical Soc
… In conclusion, in patients with heart failure due to transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy, …
that tafamidis is an effective therapy for patients with transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy. …

THAOS–The Transthyretin Amyloidosis Outcomes Survey: initial report on clinical manifestations in patients with hereditary and wild-type transthyretin amyloidosis

T Coelho, MS Maurer, OB Suhr - Current medical research and …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
patients with hereditary TTR amyloidosis, 67 symptomatic patients with wild-type TTR
amyloidosis, and 274 currently asymptomatic individuals with a TTR mutation. Nineteen countries …

Expert consensus recommendations for the suspicion and diagnosis of transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis

MS Maurer, S Bokhari, T Damy, S Dorbala… - Circulation: Heart …, 2019 - Am Heart Assoc
… variants of TTR (mutant transthyretin amyloidosis [ATTRm]; … is diagnostic of transthyretin
amyloidosis with predominant … in a patient with cardiac transthyretin amyloidosis at baseline. …