Noninvasive eye test can help diagnose hATTR at early stage
People with hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis (hATTR), a group of diseases that includes familial amyloid polyneuropathy (FAP), have significantly shorter nerve fibers in their corneas, the eye’s outermost layer, relative to healthy people, a study showed. Shorter corneal nerve fibers could be detected using a noninvasive technique known as corneal…
