How to Use amyloidosis in a Sentence

amyloidosis

noun
  • The amyloidosis field has come a long way in the last three-plus decades.
    — Amber Dance, Discover Magazine, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Yes, carpal tunnel syndrome can be the first sign of transthyretin amyloidosis.
    — Ruth Jessen Hickman, Health, 8 Dec. 2025
  • In amyloidosis, proteins don’t fold correctly to form the right shape.
    — Ruth Jessen Hickman, Health, 8 Dec. 2025
  • For instance, amyloidosis occurs when there’s too much protein in the heart tissue.
    — Elizabeth Millard, TIME, 18 Dec. 2024
  • This type of amyloidosis is also progressive but much more slowly.
    — New York Times, 28 July 2021
  • The cause was cardiac amyloidosis, said her husband, Robert Kapp.
    — Staff Reports, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2017
  • Cardiac amyloidosis can be a result of a cancer known as multiple myeloma.
    — New York Times, 28 July 2021
  • The hospice’s expertise was end-stage cancer, not amyloidosis.
    — Catherine Porter Photographs and Video By Leslye Davis, New York Times, 25 May 2017
  • Those giant protein globs are called amyloid, and the diagnosis was amyloidosis.
    — Amber Dance, Discover Magazine, 13 Apr. 2023
  • He was diagnosed in April with amyloidosis, a disorder in which protein buildup can lead to organ damage.
    — ABC News, 10 June 2026
  • The cause was cardiac amyloidosis, his daughter Deborah said.
    — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2018
  • The cause was cardiac amyloidosis, said his wife, Margaret Kepner.
    — Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2020
  • While none of the 40 types of amyloidosis are common, your sister was right that protein in the urine might represent a serious condition.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 2 Nov. 2021
  • He was diagnosed in 2014 with the rare condition amyloidosis, which produces protein deposits in the heart.
    — Mike Brehm, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2023
  • McGuinness suffered from amyloidosis, a rare disease with a strain specific to Ireland’s northwest.
    — Shawn Pogatchnik, Orange County Register, 21 Mar. 2017
  • McGuinness died at the relatively young age of 66 from amyloidosis, a rare condition that affects the tissues and organs.
    — Gary Murphy, Foreign Affairs, 3 Apr. 2017
  • Last year, Intellia Therapeutics was the first to demonstrate that this was possible for a disease called transthyretin amyloidosis.
    — WIRED, 23 Sep. 2022
  • The cause was complications from amyloidosis, an abnormal protein disorder, said a son, James Wilkins.
    — Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2020
  • The cause was complications related to amyloidosis, said his son-in-law, Stefan Merrill Block.
    — Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 11 May 2018
  • In transthyretin amyloidosis, mutations in the TTR gene cause the liver to produce abnormal versions of the transthyretin protein.
    — WIRED, 23 Sep. 2022
  • In late 2019, Jacobs was diagnosed with cardiac amyloidosis, a condition that weakens the heart.
    — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 May 2024
  • The special education teacher has amyloidosis, a rare and deadly disease caused by toxic clumps of protein that build up in the body and damage the heart, nervous system and kidneys, among other organ systems.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 June 2021
  • The anchor, who is 58, underwent a bone marrow transplant and chemotherapy for amyloidosis, which affected his kidneys, Feder adds.
    — Hal Boedeker, OrlandoSentinel.com, 1 July 2017
  • But that’s even more rare than the AL amyloidosis itself, due to the high level of technical complexity and inter-team coordination required.
    — Theoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 28 Aug. 2025
  • But in those with hereditary ATTR amyloidosis, the genetic mutation produces a botched version of it.
    — Wired, Ars Technica, 29 Dec. 2022
  • No cause of death was revealed, but Musharraf, had been battling a rare disease, amyloidosis, and was being treated at a hospital in Dubai, Pakistani media reported.
    — David Jackson, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Millen, whose time running the Lions ushered in the lowest points of the franchise's history, was diagnosed with amyloidosis, an incurable disease that is being treated with chemotherapy.
    — Kirkland Crawford, Detroit Free Press, 14 May 2018
  • The genetic error resulted in the birth of a rare condition known as hereditary transthyretin (ATTR) amyloidosis.
    — Wired, Ars Technica, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Her dad, Daniel, 68, is a retired business analyst, while her mother Anne (who died from cardiac amyloidosis in 2014) worked as a school social worker.
    — Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE, 20 Jan. 2026
  • The initial results in patients with transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTR), a rare degenerative disease that can lead to nerve damage and the stiffening of the heart, are impressive.
    — Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 2 July 2021

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