Ana Pena, PhD,  —

Liver transplant or therapy with Pfizer‘s Vyndaqel (tafamidis) can substantially extend the lives of people with familial amyloid polyneuropathy (FAP) in early stages of the disease, a Portuguese study has shown. The study, one of the…

The distortion and subsequent atrophy of cells in the peripheral nervous system, due to the accumulation and lengthening of amyloid fibrils, may be behind nerve cell loss in patients with familial amyloid polyneuropathy (FAP), a study reports. Researchers also identified dot-like structures outside cells that looked like the precursors…

Treatment with somatostatin analogues helps to ease the symptoms of difficult-to-treat diarrhea associated with familial amyloid polyneuropathy (FAP), a two-year pilot study suggests. The medicines, however, were linked to severe though treatable side effects in three of the 14 patients. Larger and randomized trials are…