The extracellular volume on cardiac MRI was markedly higher in patients with PyPn-negative ATTR-CM compared to controls. The extracellular volume derived from cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) ...
Thoracolumbar kyphosis angle improved across age groups, with fewer children treated with vosoritide exceeding 20° at week 52 (33% vs 57%). Vosoritide, a C-type natriuretic peptide analog that ...
The Nakanuma bile duct loss score may be an important indicator for the prognosis of PBC in the early stages of the disease, a study found.
Patients with autoimmune nodopathy more frequently had blood–cerebrospinal fluid barrier dysfunction and total intrathecal immunoglobulin G synthesis than patients with chronic inflammatory ...
The evaluation of the cerebrospinal fluid and imaging techniques, like high-resolution ultrasound, can improve diagnostic certainty. A new article that appeared in the scientific journal Neurologic ...
Despite his kappa-restricted gammopathy and suspicion of AL amyloidosis, further investigation yielded the accurate diagnosis. Transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM) can present with a ...
At the time of diagnosis, patients with different types of [cardiac amyloidosis] had distinct echocardiographic presentation and survival differed in the first 3 years. Differences in ...
Recent presentations at leading medical congresses highlighted both the clinical and nonclinical data of deucrictibant, emphasizing its potential in treating bradykinin-mediated angioedema.
The patient was diagnosed with primary diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) of the optic nerve based on histopathologic analysis of biopsy. Researchers from Poland reported the case of a patient with ...
Patients showed clinically meaningful improvement in the Myasthenia Gravis (MG) Composite scale, MG Activities of Daily Living score, Quantitative MG scores, and Quality of Life 15-revised score at ...
Seladelpar treatment was significantly associated with an increased normalization in the levels of alkaline phosphatase, a biomarker of cholestasis, in patients with primary biliary cholangitis (PBC).
Sickle cell disease (SCD) is an autosomal recessive disease and the most common genetic disease in the United States, predominantly affecting African Americans at a rate of approximately 1 in 500. One ...