Per Eldhagen, Antonios Tzortzakakis, Lars H Lund, Liselott Söderström, Svante Berg, Per Westermark, Peder Sörensson
{"title":"Cardiac amyloidosis after lumbar spinal stenosis surgery - a comprehensive prospective cohort study.","authors":"Per Eldhagen, Antonios Tzortzakakis, Lars H Lund, Liselott Söderström, Svante Berg, Per Westermark, Peder Sörensson","doi":"10.1080/13506129.2025.2481310","DOIUrl":"10.1080/13506129.2025.2481310","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Wild-type transthyretin (ATTRwt) amyloidosis is underdiagnosed and generally diagnosed with manifest cardiac involvement. Lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) might be an early sign of systemic transthyretin amyloidosis and a possible screening target for early diagnosis.</p><p><strong>Objectives: </strong>To assess the prevalence of cardiac amyloidosis (CA) 6 years post-LSS surgery, among patients with transthyretin amyloid deposits in ligamentum flavum.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Twenty-one patients who had surgery for LSS in 2016-2018 and grade 3-4 ATTR amyloid deposits in ligamentum flavum were followed up in 2022-2023, including biomarkers, echocardiography, cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) and nuclear imaging.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>At follow-up, median age was 79 years, 16% (3/19) displayed cardiac uptake on scintigraphy consistent with ATTR-CA. Forty-eight percent (10/21) had a history of other tenosynovial conditions associated with ATTRwt. We observed a small increase in tissue characteristics using CMR, and a decrease in left ventricular global longitudinal strain and left atrial strain on echocardiography.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>In this prospective cohort study, 16% were diagnosed with ATTRwt cardiomyopathy, six years following surgery for LSS. History of other tenosynovial conditions associated with ATTRwt amyloidosis was common. These findings strengthen the hypothesis that LSS is a possible manifestation of ATTRwt amyloidosis and that in selected patients with LSS, cardiac follow-up is of value.</p>","PeriodicalId":50964,"journal":{"name":"Amyloid-Journal of Protein Folding Disorders","volume":" ","pages":"218-225"},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143711936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Laura Sander, Giacomo Chiaro, Domenico Abelardo, Angelo Torrente, Gordon T Ingle, Patricia McNamara, Laura Watson, Carol J Whelan, Julian D Gillmore, Mary M Reilly, Christopher J Mathias, Valeria Iodice
{"title":"Early cardiovascular autonomic failure in ATTRv predicts poor prognosis and may respond to disease-modifying therapy.","authors":"Laura Sander, Giacomo Chiaro, Domenico Abelardo, Angelo Torrente, Gordon T Ingle, Patricia McNamara, Laura Watson, Carol J Whelan, Julian D Gillmore, Mary M Reilly, Christopher J Mathias, Valeria Iodice","doi":"10.1080/13506129.2025.2494657","DOIUrl":"10.1080/13506129.2025.2494657","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTRv) is a life-threatening, but treatable disease presenting with autonomic dysfunction. This study investigates the progression of autonomic failure, response to treatment, and the impact of autonomic failure in ATTRv.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Clinical features and autonomic function test (AFT) results were evaluated in 126 patients (40 had treatment) and 12 asymptomatic TTR variant carriers. A subgroup had follow-up (FU) AFT. Kaplan-Meier estimates compared survival time between participants with and without neurogenic orthostatic hypotension (nOH), and logistic regression assessed its impact on mortality.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Patients treated early with disease modifying therapies (DMT) had slower progression and did not develop nOH. In 59 individuals with repeat AFT, autonomic dysfunction worsened, with a decline in the Valsalva ratio (<i>p</i> = 0.002), even in early-stage disease (<i>p</i> = 0.019; median disease duration at FU 4 years). nOH at first assessment predicted worse outcome (mean survival time in individuals with nOH 7.0 vs. 14.9 years without nOH, <i>p</i> < 0.001) and death (OR = 5.27; 95%CI: 1.94 - 14.31; <i>p</i> = 0.001).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The early development of autonomic dysfunction and nOH is an independent predictive factor for shorter survival in ATTRv. Autonomic testing is a valuable biomarker to capture disease progression. Prospective studies need to confirm the benefit of DMT on autonomic dysfunction.</p>","PeriodicalId":50964,"journal":{"name":"Amyloid-Journal of Protein Folding Disorders","volume":" ","pages":"246-254"},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144042715","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Matthew J Rees, Nadia Toumeh, Angela Dispenzieri, Morie Gertz, Binoy Yohannan, Suheil Albert Atallah-Yunes, Prashant Kapoor, Taxiarchis Kourelis, Nelson Leung, Suzanne Hayman, Francis Buadi, David Dingli, Joselle Cook, Rahma Warsame, Moritz Binder, Wilson Gonsalves, S Vincent Rajkumar, Shaji Kumar, Eli Muchtar
{"title":"Hepatic involvement in light chain amyloidosis: analysis of 130 patients and predictors of hepatic response and survival.","authors":"Matthew J Rees, Nadia Toumeh, Angela Dispenzieri, Morie Gertz, Binoy Yohannan, Suheil Albert Atallah-Yunes, Prashant Kapoor, Taxiarchis Kourelis, Nelson Leung, Suzanne Hayman, Francis Buadi, David Dingli, Joselle Cook, Rahma Warsame, Moritz Binder, Wilson Gonsalves, S Vincent Rajkumar, Shaji Kumar, Eli Muchtar","doi":"10.1080/13506129.2025.2516790","DOIUrl":"10.1080/13506129.2025.2516790","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Organ response is key to improving outcomes in light chain (AL) amyloidosis. We investigated factors associated hepatic response (HepR) in a large cohort of patients with hepatic AL amyloidosis.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Retrospective study of newly-diagnosed AL amyloidosis patients (<i>n</i> = 130) with liver involvement evaluated at the Mayo Clinic between 2000-2021. Patients were eligible if they had documented liver involvement and baseline alkaline phosphatase (ALP)≥1.5x upper limit of normal (ULN). HepR was defined as >50% reduction in ALP from baseline or ALP normalization. HepRs were assessed at 6, 12, 24 month after treatment initiation and the best HepR at any time point.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The median baseline ALP was 2.88-fold the ULN (ALP:ULN, IQR: 2.15-4.41), and the median bilirubin was 0.7 mg/dL. HepR rates increased with time from 28% at 6 months, 36% at 12 months and 48% at 24 months. The median time to HepR was 21.5 months (95%CI = 15.4-29.5). Baseline ALP ≥ 4xULN consistently predicted HepR across all time points. Hematological response (HemR) also independently predicted HepR at 12, 24 months and best response. At best hepatic response, kappa isotype, and front-line ASCT were further independent predictors of HepR.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The degree of baseline ALP elevation and HemR are reliable predictors of HepR.</p>","PeriodicalId":50964,"journal":{"name":"Amyloid-Journal of Protein Folding Disorders","volume":" ","pages":"267-275"},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144287033","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eduardo Boiteux Uchôa Cavalcanti, Savana Camilla de Lima Santos, Heveline Becker de Moura, Osvaldo Moreira do Nascimento
{"title":"Unmasking the silent culprit: the elusive phenotypes of hereditary β2-microglobulin amyloidosis.","authors":"Eduardo Boiteux Uchôa Cavalcanti, Savana Camilla de Lima Santos, Heveline Becker de Moura, Osvaldo Moreira do Nascimento","doi":"10.1080/13506129.2025.2500347","DOIUrl":"10.1080/13506129.2025.2500347","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50964,"journal":{"name":"Amyloid-Journal of Protein Folding Disorders","volume":" ","pages":"286-288"},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144038233","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ojasav Sehrawat, Konstantinos C Siontis, Nicholas Tan, Maren Maanja, Choudhary A Chahal, David Hodge, Wayne L Miller, Angela Dispenzieri, Peter A Noseworthy, Grace Lin
{"title":"Prognostic impact of cardiac resynchronization therapy in wild-type transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy.","authors":"Ojasav Sehrawat, Konstantinos C Siontis, Nicholas Tan, Maren Maanja, Choudhary A Chahal, David Hodge, Wayne L Miller, Angela Dispenzieri, Peter A Noseworthy, Grace Lin","doi":"10.1080/13506129.2025.2504443","DOIUrl":"10.1080/13506129.2025.2504443","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50964,"journal":{"name":"Amyloid-Journal of Protein Folding Disorders","volume":" ","pages":"289-291"},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144144282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sara Cavaco, Ana Martins da Silva, Joana Fernandes, Ana Paula Sousa, Cristina Alves, Márcio Neves Cardoso, Armando Teixeira-Pinto, Teresa Coelho
{"title":"ATTRV30M amyloidosis post-liver transplant: cognition and long-term survival.","authors":"Sara Cavaco, Ana Martins da Silva, Joana Fernandes, Ana Paula Sousa, Cristina Alves, Márcio Neves Cardoso, Armando Teixeira-Pinto, Teresa Coelho","doi":"10.1080/13506129.2025.2487822","DOIUrl":"10.1080/13506129.2025.2487822","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Patients with hereditary amyloidosis related to transthyretin (ATTRv amyloidosis) treated with liver transplant (LTx) often have central nervous system (CNS) manifestations, including cognitive dysfunction. The aim of this study was to explore the long-term outcome associated with neuropsychological test performance.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A retrospective longitudinal review was conducted in a cohort of 289 ATTRv amyloidosis patients with the Val30Met mutation (ATTRV30M amyloidosis) who underwent a neuropsychological assessment (T1) 1-23 years (median = 11) post-LTx and 20-189 months (median = 81) prior to the study review. Clinical records were reviewed. The Kaplan-Meier and Cox regression methods were used to estimate survival and adjusted hazard ratios for all-cause mortality.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Impaired performance on Dementia Rating Scale-2, Semantic Fluency, Phonemic Fluency and Trail Making Test Part B were predictive of shorter survival after neuropsychological assessment, even when demographic and clinical variables (i.e. education, age at disease onset <math><mrow><mo>≥</mo></mrow></math>50, disease duration at LTx, interval between LTx and T1, age at T1, Modified Polyneuropathy Disability score at T1, and history of focal neurological episodes at T1) were taken into account. Measures of verbal learning and memory were not predictive of mortality.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Study results demonstrate that cognitive impairment in ATTRV30M amyloidosis patients treated with LTx predicts long-term survival.</p>","PeriodicalId":50964,"journal":{"name":"Amyloid-Journal of Protein Folding Disorders","volume":" ","pages":"238-245"},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144040272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Olesia O Kalmukova, Liudmyla M Surzhko, Ruth C Campbell, Daria V Ilatovskaya, Oleg Palygin, Valentyn N Nepomnyashchy
{"title":"Regarding the challenges of amyloidosis diagnosis and typing in Ukraine.","authors":"Olesia O Kalmukova, Liudmyla M Surzhko, Ruth C Campbell, Daria V Ilatovskaya, Oleg Palygin, Valentyn N Nepomnyashchy","doi":"10.1080/13506129.2025.2526542","DOIUrl":"10.1080/13506129.2025.2526542","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50964,"journal":{"name":"Amyloid-Journal of Protein Folding Disorders","volume":" ","pages":"297-299"},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144610184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tarun Dalia, Zafar Ali, Stefano H Byer, Rachel Holder, Shaden Daloub, Anureet Malhotra, Daniel Holtz, Tanner Robl, Zubair Shah
{"title":"Prognostic role of cardiopulmonary exercise testing in wild-type transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy patients treated with tafamidis.","authors":"Tarun Dalia, Zafar Ali, Stefano H Byer, Rachel Holder, Shaden Daloub, Anureet Malhotra, Daniel Holtz, Tanner Robl, Zubair Shah","doi":"10.1080/13506129.2025.2547381","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13506129.2025.2547381","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>Tafamidis has demonstrated survival benefits in transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM), yet variability in therapeutic response underscores the need for reliable tools to predict outcomes. This study evaluates the prognostic utility of cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) in this population.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This retrospective study included tafamidis treated wild-type (ATTRwt) CM patients who completed CPET. Univariable and multivariable Cox regression models were used to evaluate predictors of mortality and composite secondary endpoint (mortality and heart failure admissions).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Total of 105 ATTRwt-CM patients were enrolled with median age of 80 years. During median follow-up of 2.1 years, 33 (31%) died and 67 (63.8%) had composite outcome of mortality and heart failure hospitalisations. Multivariable analysis showed VE/VCO<sub>2</sub> slope (HR 1.61 per SD, 95% CI: 1.13-2.30, <i>p</i> = 0.01), peak circulatory power [CP] (HR 0.43 per SD, 95% CI 0.21-0.89, <i>p</i> = 0.02), Mayo stage 3 (HR 5.34, 95% CI: 1.07-26.7, <i>p</i> = 0.04) were independent predictors of mortality. The VE/VCO<sub>2</sub> slope (HR 1.57 per SD, 95% CI 1.2, 2.05, p= <0.01), creatinine (HR 1.37 per SD, 95% CI 1.07, 1.76, <i>p</i> = 0.01) and Mayo stage 3 (HR 2.49, 95% CI 1.10, 5.66, <i>p</i> = 0.03) were independent predictors of composite outcome.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>CPET provides prognostic insights for ATTRwt-CM patients in addition to known prognostic laboratory factors.</p>","PeriodicalId":50964,"journal":{"name":"Amyloid-Journal of Protein Folding Disorders","volume":" ","pages":"1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144977620","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Clinical and neurophysiological features of neuropathic pain in hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis associated polyneuropathy.","authors":"Isabel Conceição, Isabel de Castro, José Castro","doi":"10.1080/13506129.2025.2544926","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13506129.2025.2544926","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis with polyneuropathy (ATTRv-PN) is often associated with neuropathic pain (NP), involving developing mechanisms across different nerve fibres. This study aimed to explore the relationship between NP intensity and clinical/neurophysiological measures in symptomatic ATTR V30M (p.V50M)-PN patients.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We included 106 symptomatic patients (46 males; mean age 47.5 ± 13.2 years). NP severity was classified using three pain-related items from the Norfolk QOL-DN, generating three groups: no pain, mild pain, and moderate-to-severe pain. Clinical and neurophysiological assessments included the Neuropathy Impairment Score (NIS), nerve conduction studies (sural SNAP, peroneal CMAP), electrochemical skin conductance (ESC), sympathetic skin response (SSR), and Quantitative Sensory Testing (QST). Statistical analyses included non-parametric tests and ordinal logistic regression.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Patients with NP had significantly higher NIS scores and reduced sural/peroneal amplitudes and ESC values. However, only NIS was significantly associated with NP intensity (OR = 1.062, 95% CI: 1.008-1.119, <i>p</i> = .024). Subscore analysis showed the sensory component as the main driver (OR = 1.205, <i>p</i> = .015). QST variables differed by pain presence but not intensity.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>NIS, especially its sensory subscore, is a robust predictor of NP severity in ATTRv-PN. These findings support its utility in monitoring disease burden and guiding management.</p>","PeriodicalId":50964,"journal":{"name":"Amyloid-Journal of Protein Folding Disorders","volume":" ","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144849531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}