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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Amyloidosis is a rare, multisystem disease that leads to deposition of misfolded proteins in various organs. This case report ...

For example, AL amyloidosis occurs when plasma cells create misfolded proteins in the immune system which can travel throughout your body and build up in other organs. AA amyloidosis develops as a ...

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

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 ...