**Meet the editor**

Dr. Feng received his MD from Chengde Medical College and Master Degree of Medical Science from FuWai Hospital in China. He spent six years at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center of Harvard Medical School investigating genetics, platelet function, and thrombosis. He finished his residency in the Boston Medical Center and cardiology fellowship at the Mayo Clinic. Dr. Feng

was an assistant professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic . Currently, Dr. Feng holds position of a cardiologist and the director of cardiac MRI, at the Metropolitan Heart and Vascular Institute in Minneapolis. His interests include cardiomyopathy, pericardial disease and cardiac imaging. Dr. Feng is an accomplished researcher with 46 original manuscripts including several seminal manuscripts published in the Circulation, ATVB, Stroke, and JACC imaging on genetic, thrombosis, cardiac amyloidosis, constrictive pericarditis and cardiac MRI. He authored or coauthored eight book chapters.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Section 1 History and Clinical Diagnosis and Typing 1**

Cezar Augusto Muniz Caldas and Jozélio Freire de Carvalho

Glenn K. Lee, DaLi Feng, Martha Grogan, Cynthia Taub, Angela

**Features in Patients Undergoing Dialysis Treatment 67**

Suguru Yamamoto, Junichiro James Kazama, Hiroki Maruyama and

Hesam Hashemian, Mahmoud Jabbarvand, Mehdi Khodaparast,

Estefania Azevedo, Priscila F. Silva, Fernando Palhano, Carolina A.

Chapter 3 **Cardiac Amyloidosis: Typing, Diagnosis, Prognosis and**

Chapter 4 **Dialysis-Related Amyloidosis: Pathogenesis and Clinical**

Elias Khalilipour and Hamid Riazi Esfehani

Chapter 6 **Transthyretin-Related Amyloidoses: A Structural and**

**Thermodynamic Approach 113**

Chapter 1 **"Amyloid" — Historical Aspects 3** Maarit Tanskanen

Chapter 2 **Diagnosis of Amyloidosis 25**

**Management 33**

Ichiei Narita

Dispenzieri and Kyle W. Klarich

Chapter 5 **Ocular Presentations of Amyloidosis 85**

**Section 2 The Mechanism of the Disease 111**

Braga and Debora Foguel
