The management of PI underwent a transformative shift in 1979 with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg), which became the standard therapy for ...

While being diagnosed with immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) has everything to do with our physical body, it can also have a severe effect on our mental and emotional health. It’s almost as if you go ...

There have been reports of patients who have been started on peritoneal dialysis who developed CIDP shortly after. There is much that we are still learning about chronic inflammatory demyelinating ...

An initial negative peripheral blood screen for KIT D816V does not necessarily rule out a diagnosis of systemic mastocytosis. Three hundred eighty-one patients with anaphylaxis or suspected of having ...

Targeted disease-specific therapy should be considered in symptomatic patients with a confirmed diagnosis of post-orthotopic liver transplantation ATTR-CM. Many patients with hereditary ...

The lifetime risk of thrombosis in patients with PNH is approximately 50%, and it tends to be found in the abdominal or cerebral veins. Patients who experience thromboses at unusual sites should be ...

Yiannis Papazoglou is one of only 40 people in the world with a mutation of the IRF2BPL gene. Foundation Aims to Help Patients With Rare Diseases—Even Before They’re Recognized The Undiagnosed ...

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The evaluation of suspected cardiac amyloidosis should include screening tests for both AL and ATTR amyloidosis. A strong positive Tc-99 m pyrophosphate (PYP) scan, while generally indicative of ...

Recent studies have explored the link between HAE and autoimmune diseases, highlighting how C1-INH can affect immune responses. Hereditary angioedema (HAE) with C1 inhibitor (C1-INH) has been ...

Over 240 patients with ATTR-CM treated with tafamidis died over a median follow-up period of 43.2 months. More than a third (39%) of patients with transthyretin-mediated amyloid cardiomyopathy ...

In patients with hemophilia, the knee joints represent approximately 45% of all occurrences of joint bleeding. In patients with hemophilia, the effectiveness of knee replacement surgery is impacted by ...