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- Clinical 3-D Gait Assessment of Patients with Polyneuropathy Associated with Hereditary Transthyretin AmyloidosisPublication . Vilas-Boas, Maria do Carmo; Rocha, Ana Patrícia; Cardoso, Márcio Neves; Fernandes, José Maria; Coelho, Teresa; Cunha, João Paulo SilvaHereditary amyloidosis associated with transthyretin V30M (ATTRv V30M) is a rare and inherited multisystemic disease, with a variable presentation and a challenging diagnosis, follow-up and treatment. This condition entails a definitive and progressive motor impairment that compromises walking ability from near onset. The detection of the latter is key for the disease's diagnosis. The aim of this work is to perform quantitative 3-D gait analysis in ATTRv V30M patients, at different disease stages, and explore the potential of the obtained gait information for supporting early diagnosis and/or stage distinction during follow-up. Sixty-six subjects (25 healthy controls, 14 asymptomatic ATTRv V30M carriers, and 27 symptomatic patients) were included in this case-control study. All subjects were asked to walk back and forth for 2 min, in front of a Kinect v2 camera prepared for body motion tracking. We then used our own software to extract gait-related parameters from the camera's 3-D body data. For each parameter, the main subject groups and symptomatic patient subgroups were statistically compared. Most of the explored gait parameters can potentially be used to distinguish between the considered group pairs. Despite of statistically significant differences being found, most of them were undetected to the naked eye. Our Kinect camera-based system is easy to use in clinical settings and provides quantitative gait information that can be useful for supporting clinical assessment during ATTRv V30M onset detection and follow-up, as well as developing more objective and fine-grained rating scales to further support the clinical decisions.
- Neuropathy symptom and change: Inotersen treatment of hereditary transthyretin amyloidosisPublication . Dyck, P. James B.; Coelho, Teresa; Waddington Cruz, Marcia; Brannagan, Thomas H.; Khella, Sami; Karam, Chafic; Berk, John L.; Polydefkis, Michael J.; Kincaid, John C.; Wiesman, Janice F.; Litchy, William J.; Mauermann, Michelle L.; Ackermann, Elizabeth J.; Baker, Brenda F.; Jung, Shiangtung W.; Guthrie, Spencer; Pollock, Michael; Dyck, Peter J.Introduction: Hereditary transthyretin-mediated amyloidosis (hATTR) manifests as multisystem dysfunction, including progressive polyneuropathy. Inotersen, an antisense oligonucleotide, improved the course of neuropathic impairment in patients with hATTR in the pivotal NEURO-TTR study (NCT01737398). To determine inotersen's impact on symptoms and patients' neuropathy experience, we performed a post hoc analysis of the Neuropathy Symptoms and Change (NSC) score. Methods: Stage 1 or 2 hATTR patients were randomized to receive weekly subcutaneous inotersen or placebo for 65 weeks. NSC score was assessed at baseline and 35 and 66 weeks. Results: At 66 weeks, inotersen-treated patients had symptom stabilization as compared with worsening in patients receiving placebo, based on total NSC score. There were also improvements in the subdomains of muscle weakness, sensory, pain, and autonomic symptoms, and for various individual items. Discussion: Inotersen treatment stabilized neuropathy symptoms, including autonomic symptoms, in patients with hATTR according to NSC score. Thus, the NSC may be an effective measure to assess neuropathy progression and patients' neuropathy experience in clinical practice.
- A pair of peptides inhibits seeding of the hormone transporter transthyretin into amyloid fibrilsPublication . Saelices, L.; Nguyen, B.; Chung, K.; Wang, Y.; Ortega, A.; Lee, J.; Coelho, T.; Bijzet, J.; Benson, M.; Eisenberg, D.The tetrameric protein transthyretin is a transporter of retinol and thyroxine in blood, cerebrospinal fluid, and the eye, and is secreted by the liver, choroid plexus, and retinal epithelium, respectively. Systemic amyloid deposition of aggregated transthyretin causes hereditary and sporadic amyloidoses. A common treatment of patients with hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis is liver transplantation. However, this procedure, which replaces the patient's variant transthyretin with the WT protein, can fail to stop subsequent cardiac deposition, ultimately requiring heart transplantation. We recently showed that preformed amyloid fibrils present in the heart at the time of surgery can template or seed further amyloid aggregation of native transthyretin. Here we assess possible interventions to halt this seeding, using biochemical and EM assays. We found that chemical or mutational stabilization of the transthyretin tetramer does not hinder amyloid seeding. In contrast, binding of the peptide inhibitor TabFH2 to ex vivo fibrils efficiently inhibits amyloid seeding by impeding self-association of the amyloid-driving strands F and H in a tissue-independent manner. Our findings point to inhibition of amyloid seeding by peptide inhibitors as a potential therapeutic approach.