Q: What are the different types of amyloidosis and what treatment options are available?Carli Greenfield, ACNP
How is amyloidosis treated?Amyloidosis cannot be cured. The goal of treatment is to manage your symptoms and decrease the amount of amyloid in your body. You may need any of the following:Chemotherapy alone or with stem cell transplant may help remove the substance that causes amyloid formation...
Pulmonary Amyloidosis: A Case with Hilar and Mediastinal Involvement and a Review of the Literature The clinical and radiographic features of an unusual case of symptomatic tracheobronchial amyloidosis is presented, and the literature regarding amyloidosi... JA Khan,SHN Shamsi,TA Rana,... - 《Clin...
Amyloidosis is not a form of cancer, butchemotherapyand anti-inflammatory agents have been shown to help to prevent harmful deposits from collecting in various tissues and organs. Peripheral blood stem cell transplantation is another possible treatment option. Stem cell transplantation involves high-dose...
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This finding brings with it the challenge to define the earliest evidence of plaque accumulation, and this is very likely to be in the clinically unimpaired elderly. We will then need to understand the full significance of asymptomatic brain β-amyloidosis. Does it lead to subclinical cognitive ...
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Amyloidosis In addition to assessment of GMB composition between AD mouse models and wildtype mice, several studies have altered the GMB in AD mouse models, primarily by using antibiotics (abx) or housing mice in germ-free environments wherein the mice are devoid of microbes and thus do not ...