Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Okay, well, let's take out the tumor, which I do think is probably very important, but there's not really a lot of talk when you go to the hospital on where the tumor came from.

For example, my kids were born in Cedars-Sinai hospital.

If I remember correctly, the restaurants that are there or something like, it's like Taco Bell, you know, basically the exact things that might cause a situation like that in theory.

is what they're feeding you while you recover from having them remove the symptom.

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Hello, this is Michelle Kittleson, Professor of Medicine from the Smith Hart Institute at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, California.

Welcome to the evolving ATTRCA landscape from recognition to disease modifying therapy.

Today, we will learn that transthyretin amyloidosis has widely varying phenotypes that can typically affect multiple organ systems that cardiologists can learn to recognize, that diagnosing ATTRCA accurately always requires laboratory testing and imaging, but may not require endomyocardial biopsy, and that timely initiation of targeted therapies for ATTRCA reduces mortality, slows progression of loss of function, and improves quality of life.

Downloadable slides and practice aids are also available.

Hello, this is Michelle Kittleson, professor of medicine from the Smith Hart Institute at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, California.

Welcome to the evolving ATTRCA landscape from recognition to disease modifying therapy.

Today, we will learn that transthyretin amyloidosis has widely varying phenotypes that can typically affect multiple organ systems that cardiologists can learn to recognize and that diagnosing ATTRCA accurately always requires laboratory testing and imaging, but may not require endomyocardial biopsy, and that timely initiation of targeted therapies for ATTRCA reduces mortality, slows progression of loss of function, and improves quality of life.

They went to the places where trusted relationships already exist.

One of the most important examples is the Los Angeles barbershop blood pressure study led by Dr. Ronald Victor and his colleagues at Cedars-Sinai.

Researchers enrolled 319 black men ages 35 to 79 with uncontrolled high blood pressure across 52 black-owned barbershops in Los Angeles County.

The intervention combined trusted relationships in the barbershop with clinical expertise.

So going to a second doctor, what I've done in the past is I go out of town.

I go to UCLA or I go to Cedar Sinai.

So it's just a completely different perspective.

Yes.

So all of those are highlights in their own way, though.

I should have mentioned that on Thursday, before dinner, we also got a tour of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, which has been, I think, considered to be the number two facility in the world now behind the Mayo Clinic.

And we got a pretty good tour of that and not just the sprawling medical campus, but some of the most amazing artwork I've ever seen in a medical facility.

But thank you, Dr. Thomas Apostle, for that.