amyloidosis

She raised a family in this corner of Chicago with husband Mike, who was 61 when he died in December of amyloidosis, a rare blood cancer.

In this case, the technology was applied towards a therapy for transthyretin amyloidosis, a genetic disease that causes sufferers’ livers to produce a protein that eventually builds up to toxic levels.

Transthyretin amyloidosis causes a defective protein called amyloid to build up in the body resulting in progressive nerve damage and, in many cases, heart failure.

It was the amyloidosis that sometimes made it difficult for Lew Hill to walk around their block.

The cause was cardiac amyloidosis, said his wife, Margaret Kepner.