Treatment modalities include liver transplantation for transthyretin-related (ATTR) amyloidosis, elimination of inflammation in amyloid A (AA) amyloidosis and intensive chemotherapy in ...

Among 83 patients receiving biologic agents for their underlying conditions and who had serum amyloid-α ... causes), the liver secretes large quantities of serum AA. While normally this protein ...

a liver transplantation should abolish the liver's production of amyloidogenic mutant TTR and thereby halt amyloid formation. The first liver transplantation for hereditary TTR amyloidosis was ...

The most common nonfamilial forms of amyloidosis that involve the kidney are the AL (amyloid light chain) and AA (serum amyloid A) types. These two forms require different treatment strategies ...