Exercise training in patients with heart failure and preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) has been associated with an improvement in cardiorespiratory fitness and quality of life.
Dialysis-related amyloidosis (DRA) is a serious complication of long-term hemodialysis (HD). Its pathogenic mechanism involves accumulation of β2-microglobulin (β2M) in the blood. β2M is produced by most cells in the body and is metabolized in the kidney in healthy individuals. However, in HD patients with renal dysfunction, β2M which is not removed entirely by HD accumulates excessively in the blood. Then it forms amyloid fibrils that are deposited in bones, joints, and soft tissues.
Recent studies have shown that transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTR) can sometimes cause a type of heart failure where the pumping function of the heart is normal, also known as Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF) or diastolic heart failure. In this single center diagnostic study, we will evaluate for ATTR in patients with HFpEF in order to to determine how frequently this occurs and how we can predict which heart failure patients may have TTR amyloidosis. Our goal is to identify amyloidosis in heart failure patients earlier so that they can start treatment.
The purpose of this study is to collect and evaluate pregnancy outcomes, pregnancy complications, and fetal/neonatal/infant outcomes in women exposed to patisiran-LNP.
The research study is being conducted to test how two different types of Positron Emission Tomography (PET/CT) scans could be used to image a type of heart disorder called amyloidosis (AL). There will be two groups in the study. One group will have PET/CT scans using an imaging drug called 18F-NOS and the other group will have PET/CT scans using a drug called Florbetaben. subject will be assigned to one of the groups when she/he agrees to be in the study.
This study will investigate 99mTc-p5+14, an amyloid-reactive synthetic peptide, p5+14, radiolabeled with technetium-99m, as a radiotracer for detecting paamyloid deposits in patients with AL or ATTR-associated systemic amyloidosis, notably with cardiac involvement.
The purpose of this study is to:
* Describe epidemiological and clinical characteristics, natural history and real-world clinical management of ATTR amyloidosis patients
* Characterize the safety and effectiveness of patisiran and vutrisiran as part of routine clinical practice in the real-world clinical setting
* Describe disease emergence/progression in pre-symptomatic carriers of a known disease-causing transthyretin (TTR) variant
This is a Phase 2 open-label extension study to evaluate the long-term safety, tolerability, and clinical activity of AT-02.
AT-02 is an investigational medicinal product being developed to treat systemic amyloidosis.
The investigators will evaluate the change in myocardial uptake of 99m-technetium pyrophosphate (Tc-99m PYP) tracer on serial planar and SPECT imaging in patients enrolled in the CARDIO-TTRansform clinical trial (NCT04136171).
Approximately 1.5 million of the 44 million Blacks in the United States are carriers of the valine-to-isoleucine substitution at position 122 (V122I) in the transthyretin (TTR) protein. Virtually exclusive to Blacks, this is the most common cause of hereditary cardiac amyloidosis (hATTR-CA) worldwide. hATTR-CA leads to worsening heart failure (HF) and premature death. Fortunately, new therapies that stabilize TTR improve morbidity and mortality in hATTR-CA, especially when prescribed early in the disease.