(BPT) - Imagine your family carried the gene for a rare, life-threatening condition, but didnīt know it? For generations, members of Angelīs family experienced fatigue, nerve pain, numbness in limbs, dizziness, shortness of breath and chest pain, but were unable to determine the cause. The answer was hereditary ATTR (hATTR) amyloidosis, a progressive, debilitating, life-threatening condition that typically runs in families. `Early on, my family used to call hATTR amyloidosis `the curseī because no one knew what it was and those who had it...
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