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Examination of abdominal subcutaneous fat aspirates is a practical, sensitive and specific method for the diagnosis of systemic amyloidosis. Here we describe the development and implementation of a clinical assay using mass spectrometry-based proteomics ...
Julie A. Vrana +9 more
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Cardiac Amyloidosis – An Underdiagnosed Cause of Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction – Updated Diagnosis and Treatment Options [PDF]
Cardiac amyloidosis (CA) still represents a frequently missed cause of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). In the light of many new and effective therapies for immunoglobulin light chain amyloidosis (AL) and for transthyretin ...
Roxana Cristina RIMBAS +3 more
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Immunoglobulin Light Chain Amyloidosis (AL) is the most common systemic amyloidosis occurring in Western countries. Here the authors present the 4.0 Å cryo-EM structure of light chain AL55 fibrils that were isolated from the heart of an AL systemic ...
Paolo Swuec +13 more
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Light Chain Stabilization: A Therapeutic Approach to Ameliorate AL Amyloidosis
Non-native immunoglobulin light chain conformations, including aggregates, appear to cause light chain amyloidosis pathology. Despite significant progress in pharmacological eradication of the neoplastic plasma cells that secrete these light chains, in ...
Gareth J. Morgan +2 more
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Localized Lymph Node Light Chain Amyloidosis
Immunoglobulin-derived light chain amyloidosis can occasionally be associated with localized disease. We present a patient with localized lymph node light chain amyloidosis without an underlying monoclonal protein or lymphoproliferative disorder and ...
Binod Dhakal +3 more
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Duodenal biopsy: an unexpected confirmatory test for a patient with al-amyloidosis
SSystemic AL- amyloidosis is a disorder of protein folding in which there is extra-cellular accumulation as β pleated fibrillar deposits of monoclonal immunoglobulin light chain fragments. AL- amyloidosis is a rare clinical entity.
S. Pirasath +4 more
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Skeletal Myopathy as the Initial Manifestation of Light Chain Multiple Myeloma
Monoclonal gammopathies due to plasma cell dyscrasias can cause various rare neuromuscular disorders. The peripheral nervous system is most commonly affected, while muscle diseases associated with monoclonal gammopathies are rare. Skeletal myopathy, as a
Mohamed Reda Belkhribchia +5 more
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Aim. Systemic amyloidosis caused by the synthesis and deposition of immunoglobulin light chains (AL amyloidosis) is a relatively rare disease that involves heart, kidneys, peripheral nervous system, gastrointestinal tract, and has a large number of ...
L. S. Kholopov +4 more
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Introduction Refractory pleural effusion in systemic immunoglobulin light chain amyloidosis without cardiac decompensation is rarely reported and has a poor prognosis in general (a median survival of 1.6 months).
Mima Akira +13 more
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Due to differences in the protein folding mechanisms, it is exceedingly rare for amyloid light chain (AL) amyloidosis and monoclonal gammopathy of renal significance (MGRS) to coexist.
Simone Feurstein +13 more
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