Arthritis Rheum 54: 2997–3000 Tocilizumab has been successfully used to treat a 26-year-old, female, Japanese patient with amyloid A (AA) amyloidosis—a severe complication of inflammatory ...

One of the most serious complications of rheumat0logic and autoimmune diseases can be prevented with biologic drugs, a single-center chart review suggested, and some such products may be more ...

Various forms of hereditary amyloidosis have been described: transthyretin (ATTR), apolipoprotein (AApo) AI, AApoAII, gelsolin, fibrinogen Aa, cystatin C and lysozyme amyloidosis. Hereditary ...

IN a review of amyloidosis, Cohen 1 concludes that “mucopolysaccharide does not constitute a significant portion of the material. Several reports in the literature indicate that an unusual ...

Cardiac amyloidosis is a myocardial disease characterized by extracellular amyloid infiltration throughout the heart. Cardiac amyloidosis has a wide spectrum of clinical manifestations but the ...