What is primary amyloidosis with cardiomyopathy? how do you treat it?

Amyloid Cardio: Amyloid is a disease that causes a deposit of a protein at various places in the body. For cardiac amyloid the deposits are in the heart muscle which cause a thickening of the muscle but as the heart thickens it is not able to pump well. Treatment is the same as for heart failure or transplant.

Plasma cell cancer: Primary amyloidosis is a type of plasma cell cancers and produces abnomral proteins to form amyloid that can potentially deposit in various organs and damage their functions. When the primary amyloidosis is associated with heart failure, the survial will be very dismal. Treatment is two-fold: treat heart failure and treat primary amyloidosis. The later include chemo and stem cell transplant.