Tag: treatment alternatives

Martha Grogan, M.D., Cardiovascular Medicine, Mayo Clinic: Hi. I'm Doctor Martha Grogan. I'm a cardiologist at the Mayo Clinic, and I 'd like to go over with you the treatment alternatives for clients who have heart amyloidosis. In previous sectors, we spoke about the medical diagnosis and what amyloid truly is, and now we'll discuss the treatment choices. The most crucial thing for you to understand is actually quite basic. The treatment for heart amyloidosis depends totally on which type you have, and in order to develop a medical diagnosis of amyloid you need to initially have what we call a tissue biopsy. Some part of your body has actually been tested and discovered to have amyloid deposits. That can either be from the fat or the bone marrow, the kidney or the heart, or other parts o...