Meet the editor

Dmitry Kurouski earned his MS in Biochemistry from Belarusian State University, Belarus, and his PhD (Distinguished Dissertation) in Analytical Chemistry from SUNY Albany, NY, USA. After a postdoc in the laboratory of Professor Richard P. van Duyne at Northwestern University, Dr. Kurouski joined Boehringer-Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, where he worked as a senior research scientist. In 2017, Dr. Kurouski joined the Biochemistry

and Biophysics Department of Texas A&M University as an assistant professor. He develops Raman spectroscopy for detection and identification of plant diseases, as well as probe structures and dynamics of biological and photocatalytic systems with nano-IR spectroscopy (infrared atomic force microscopy (AFM-IR)) and nano-Raman spectroscopy (tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy).

Contents

**Section 1**

*and Matthew Zabel*

**Section 2**

Renal Amyloidosis *by Elena Zakharova*

*by Kourosh Rezania and Laleh Saadat*

Serum Amyloid A and Immunomodulation *by Yu Fan, Chi Teng Vong and Richard D. Ye*

The Clinical Spectrum of Amyloidosis

Amyloidosis: Systems-Based Therapies

The Role of Inflammation in Amyloid Diseases *by Estefania P. Azevedo and Debora Foguel*

Pathologic Findings of Amyloidosis: Recent Advances *by Moon Joo Kim, Donghwa Baek, Luan Truong and Jae Y. Ro*

**Preface III**

Clinical Diagnostics of Amyloidosis **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 21**

**Chapter 3 41**

**Chapter 4 59**

Amyloidosis: Specific Cases **75**

**Chapter 5 77**

**Chapter 6 91**

**Chapter 7 111**

Neurological Manifestations of Transthyretin-Related Amyloidosis

*by Eileen Ly, Anu Stephen, Yasmeen Alhomsy, Asal Homayouni, Joshua Fisher, Kayla Sheehan, Prashanth Venkataraman, Quinto Gesiotto, Matthew Habib* 

*by Aswanth Reddy, Enrique Ballesteros and Jonathan Scott Harrison*
