Lori Roth, MS, PA-C, Advanced Heart Failure Clinic, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX; Sarah C. Paciulli, MS, RN, CHFN, NP-C, VCU Health, Richmond, VA; and Amy Brownell, MSN, FNP-C, AACC, System Director of Heart Failure, AMITA Health, Chicago, IL, review the rationale for stabilization as the optimal approach to addressing transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy.

Lori Roth, MS, PA-C, Advanced Heart Failure Clinic, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX; Sarah C. Paciulli, MS, RN, CHFN, NP-C, VCU Health, Richmond, VA; and Amy Brownell, MSN, FNP-C, AACC, System Director of Heart Failure, AMITA Health, Chicago, IL, discuss the debilitating disease burden and the pathway to transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy diagnosis.

In this first video clip, Sarah C. Paciulli, MS, RN, CHFN, NP-C, VCU Health, Richmond, VA; Amy Brownell, MSN, FNP-C, AACC, System Director of Heart Failure, AMITA Health, Chicago, IL; and Lori Roth, MS, PA-C, Advanced Heart Failure Clinic, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, describe the functions of transthyretin (TTR) in its naturally occurring tetrameric form and resulting damage from TTR destabilization.

Justin L. Grodin, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, explains the current and potentially future utilities of serum transthyretin (sTTR) as a biomarker in the management of transthyretin amyloidosis.

Ola Akinboboye, MD, MPH, MBA, Clinical Professor, Cardiology, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra University/Northwell Health and Medical Director, Laurelton Heart Specialists PC (Rosedale, NY) and Clement C. Eiswirth, Jr., MD, FACC, Medical Director, Cardiomyopathy and Heart Failure Program, Ochsner Health, New Orleans, LA, highlight the importance of early diagnosis and realistic expectations for patients being treated for transthyretin amyloidosis.

Clement C. Eiswirth, Jr., MD, FACC, Medical Director, Cardiomyopathy and Heart Failure Program, Ochsner Health, New Orleans, LA, examines clinical hints for consideration in the diagnosis of ATTR-CM.

Clement C. Eiswirth, Jr., MD, FACC, Medical Director, Cardiomyopathy and Heart Failure Program, Ochsner Health, New Orleans, LA, offers warning signs of ATTR-CM to consider for patients with heart failure.

Joel N. Buxbaum, MD, Professor Emeritus, Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, and Chief Medical Officer (consulting), Protego Biopharma, explores the mechanisms of organ damage in TTR amyloidosis (ATTR). This important information focuses on the biophysical and biochemical underpinnings of misfolded transthyretin (TTR) leading to tissue dysfunction in this disease.

Justin L. Grodin, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine, UT Southwestern Medical Center (Dallas, TX), presents a diagnostic algorithmic approach for the establishment of a firm diagnosis of ATTR, with a focus on ATTR patients with heart manifestations (cardiomyopathy).