Neuropathy Associated with Systemic Amyloidosis.

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Peripheral neuropathy occurs in the setting of both hereditary and acquired amyloidosis. The most common form of hereditary amyloidosis is caused by 1 of 140 mutations in the transthyretin (TTR) gene, which can lead to neuropathic hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis (hATTR; previously referred to as transthyretin familial amyloid polyneuropathy), whereas acquired immunoglobulin light chain (AL) amyloidosis is...

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