Andrea Havasi, Cihan Heybeli, Nelson Leung, Avital Angel-Korman, Vaishali Sanchorawala, Oliver Cohen, Ashutosh Wechalekar, Frank Bridoux, Insara Jaffer, Victoria Gutgarts, Hani Hassoun, Maya Levinson, Cara Rosenbaum, Paolo Milani, Giovanni Palladini, Giampaolo Merlini, Ute Hegenbart, Stefan Schönland, Kaya Veelken, Alexander Pogrebinsky, Gheorghe Doros, Heather Landau
Effective systemic therapies suppress toxic light chain production leading to an increased proportion of patients with light chain (AL) amyloidosis who survive longer albeit with end-stage renal disease. There is a critical need to identify patients in this population who benefit from renal transplantation. This multicenter, observational study from five countries includes 237 patients with AL amyloidosis who underwent renal transplantation between 1987 and 2020. With a median follow-up of 8.5 years, the median overall survival from renal transplantation was 8...
August 18, 2022: Blood Cancer Journal