Ryuta Abe

TL;DR: All three major types of cardiac amyloidsosis can be detected and differentiated non-invasively by combined use of the two amyloid imaging methods and TTR gene testing.

TL;DR: Al was the most common subtype in most biopsy sites except the heart, carpal tunnel, and peripheral nerve, in which ATTR was more common, and amyloid typing must be pursued, no matter the site from where biopsy was obtained.

TL;DR: Spinal form CTX should be considered in the differential diagnosis of cryptogenic myelopathy, especially in patients with a long spinal cord lesion, as treatment with chenodeoxycholic acid and/or competitive inhibitors of 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) reductase reverse the metabolic derangement and prevent the neurologiccal dysfunction.

TL;DR: A case of localised amyloid deposition in association with neuroendocrine tumours, such as medullary thyroid carcinoma and pituitary prolactinoma is reported.

TL;DR: An 84-year-old woman with a history of haemodialysis for renal failure from approximately 1 year before death, autopsy revealed numerous spheroid-type amyloid deposits in the kidney that were observed mainly in the interstitium but not the glomeruli and vessels.