When we catch hATTR-CM before there is significant cardiac damage, we have the best opportunity to preserve heart function and quality of life.
— Lily Stern, MD
Cardiologist and co-director of the Cardiac Amyloid Program at Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles
If you can’t afford a certain medication, or if the copay is too high, then let us know. We should be able to exhaust all of our resources to see if we can make it possible.
— Ike Okwuosa, MD
Cardiologist at the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute of Northwestern in Chicago
We're running all these clinical trials … but to translate what happens in an 80-year-old Caucasian male to a 50-year-old African American female without that data just feels irresponsible.
— Nitasha Sarswat, MD
Cardiologist with special expertise in cardiac amyloidosis at University of Chicago Medicine
The brain and heart are very much connected. Mental health symptoms can make cardiac symptoms worse and make it harder to do the things that keep you well.
— Alyssa Vela, PhD
Clinical health psychologist who practices cardiac behavioral medicine at Northwestern Medicine
