Primary Amyloidosis
- Age-Related Macular Degeneration
- Alzheimer’s Disease
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Chronic Mental Diseases
- Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy
- Conjunctival Amyloidosis
- Corticobasal Degeneration
- Creutzfeldt–Jakob Disease
- Dementia With Lewy Bodies
- Dentatombral-Pallidoluysian Atrophy
- Desmin-Related Cardiomyopathy
- Dialysis-Related Amyloidosis
- Familial Alzheimer’s Disease
- Familial Amyloidotic Cardiomyopathy
- Familial Amyloidotic Polyneuropathy
- Familial Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
- Familial British Dementia
- Familial Danish Dementia
- Familial Fatal Insomnia
- Familial Mediterranean Fever
- Familial Oculoleptomeningel Amyloidosis
- Familial Parkinson’s Disease
- Finnish Hereditary Systemic Amyloidosis
- Frontotemporal Dementia
- Gerstmann–Sträussler–Scheinker Syndrome
- HIV Infection
- Hereditary Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy
- Hereditary Non-Neuropathic Systemic Amyloidosis
- Hereditary Renal Amyloidosis
- Huntington’s Disease
- Inclusion Body Myositis
- Insulin-Related Amyloidosis
- Isolated Atrial Amyloidosis
- Medullary Carcinoma Of The Thyroid
- Multiple Systems Atrophy
- Parkinson’s Disease
- Pick’s Disease
- Preeclampsia
- Primary Amyloidosis
- Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
- Prostatic Amyloidosis
- Pure Autonomic Failure
- Senile Systemic Amyloidosis
- Spinal And Bulbar Muscular Atrophy
- Spinal Cord Injury And Traumatic Brain Injury
- Spinocerebellar Ataxia Types 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, And 17
- Systemic (Reactive) Aa Amyloidosis
- Type-2 Diabetes Mellitus
Primary amyloidosis, also called amyloid light-chain (AL) amyloidosis or primary systemic amyloidosis, is the most common form of systemic amyloidosis. Typically, it occurs as a complication of multiple myeloma. Primary amyloidosis is a devastating disease in which a population of certain bone-marrow cells produces a mutant form of an antibody. The disease affects 1 in 100,000 people annually and the median survival after diagnosis is 3 years. Current treatment options are chemotherapy and bone-marrow transplantation.