Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: a review

MM Redfield, BA Borlaug - Jama, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), defined as HF with an EF
of 50% or higher at diagnosis, affects approximately 3 million people in the US and up to 32 …

Systemic light chain amyloidosis

V Sanchorawala - New England Journal of Medicine, 2024 - Mass Medical Soc
Key Points Systemic Light Chain Amyloidosis Immunoglobulin light chain (AL) amyloidosis
is a rare disease that occurs when a plasma cell disorder produces monoclonal light chains …

Low QRS voltages in cardiac amyloidosis: clinical correlates and prognostic value

A Cipriani, L De Michieli, A Porcari, L Licchelli… - Cardio Oncology, 2022 - jacc.org
Abstract Background Low QRS voltages (LQRSVs) are a common electrocardiographic
feature in patients with light chain amyloidosis (AL) and transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTR) …

AL Amyloidosis for Cardiologists: Awareness, Diagnosis, and Future Prospects: JACC: CardioOncology State-of-the-Art Review

AD Wechalekar, M Fontana, CC Quarta, M Liedtke - Cardio Oncology, 2022 - jacc.org
Amyloid light chain (AL) amyloidosis is a rare, debilitating, often fatal disease. Symptoms of
cardiomyopathy are common presenting features, and patients often are referred to …

Hepatic Oxi-Inflammation and Neophobia as Potential Liver–Brain Axis Targets for Alzheimer's Disease and Aging, with Strong Sensitivity to Sex, Isolation, and …

J Fraile-Ramos, A Garrit, J Reig-Vilallonga… - Cells, 2023 - mdpi.com
Research on Alzheimer's disease (AD) has classically focused on alterations that occur in
the brain and their intra-and extracellular neuropathological hallmarks. However, the oxi …

Patient and family experience with transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM) and polyneuropathy (ATTR-PN) amyloidosis: results of two focus groups

D Rintell, D Heath, F Braga Mendendez… - Orphanet Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
Background Transthyretin amyloidosis, or ATTR, is a progressive and debilitating rare
proteopathy generally manifested as either transthyretin amyloid polyneuropathy (ATTR-PN) …

Design of amyloidogenic peptide traps

DD Sahtoe, EA Andrzejewska, HL Han… - Nature Chemical …, 2024 - nature.com
Segments of proteins with high β-strand propensity can self-associate to form amyloid fibrils
implicated in many diseases. We describe a general approach to bind such segments in β …

Apolipoprotein A-II, a player in multiple processes and diseases

G Florea, IF Tudorache, EV Fuior, R Ionita… - Biomedicines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Apolipoprotein A-II (apoA-II) is the second most abundant apolipoprotein in high-density
lipoprotein (HDL) particles, playing an important role in lipid metabolism. Human and murine …

Renal amyloidosis: presentation, diagnosis, and management

R Gurung, T Li - The American Journal of Medicine, 2022 - Elsevier
More than 35 amyloid precursor proteins have been identified and many have tropism for
the kidney. Renal amyloidosis is most commonly seen in AL and AA amyloidosis and the …

[HTML][HTML] Congo red staining in digital pathology: the streamlined pipeline for amyloid detection through Congo red fluorescence digital analysis

G Cazzaniga, MM Bolognesi, MD Stefania… - Laboratory …, 2023 - Elsevier
Renal amyloidosis is a rare condition caused by the progressive accumulation of misfolded
proteins within glomeruli, vessels, and interstitium, causing functional decline and requiring …