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  The number of people diagnosed with transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTR) in the U.S. is climbing, a surge researchers attribute to better medical awareness and more…

Nerve ultrasound — a scan that uses high-frequency sound waves to create real-time images of the body’s nerves — may be used to monitor signs…

Adults who carry the Val30Met, or V30M, mutation — the most common cause of early-onset hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis with polyneuropathy (hATTR-PN) — often develop heart…

RNA-targeted therapies — ones that zero in on molecules acting as messengers for genetic information in cells — are safe and effective at slowing the…

Polyneuropathy, or widespread nerve damage, occurs in both hereditary and wild-type transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTR), but the hereditary form, which includes familial amyloid polyneuropathy (FAP),…

Undergoing a liver transplant and/or receiving disease-modifying treatments significantly improves survival in people with hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis (hATTR), a group of diseases that includes hATTR…

Onpattro (patisiran) safely and effectively helps adults with familial amyloid polyneuropathy (FAP) caused by a V122I or T60A genetic mutation keep their disease…

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals has launched a Phase 3 clinical trial testing its experimental treatment nucresiran in adults with familial amyloid polyneuropathy (FAP), also known…

An elderly man who developed life-threatening liver damage after receiving nexiguran ziclumeran (nex-z), an experimental gene-editing therapy, has died. The treatment was being tested for…

Two trials testing nexiguran ziclumeran (nex-z), a gene-editing therapy for familial amyloid polyneuropathy (FAP) and the related condition ATTR amyloidosis with cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM), are…