{"id":26,"date":"2009-10-23T15:09:37","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T20:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/amyloid\/doctors\/airway\/"},"modified":"2020-06-04T16:26:52","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T20:26:52","slug":"localized","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/amyloid\/what\/localized\/","title":{"rendered":"Localized Amyloidosis Clinic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although approximately 80% of our clinic patients have AL (systemic) amyloidosis, 5% of our clinic population has disease limited to one organ \u2013 localized amyloidosis.\u00a0 Frequent presentations of localized amyloidosis include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Upper and lower airway or lung deposits<\/li>\n<li>Bladder<\/li>\n<li>Eye<\/li>\n<li>Skin\/subcutaneous<\/li>\n<li>Gastrointestinal tract<\/li>\n<li>Breast<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We employ a multi-disciplinary approach for the assessment and treatment of localized disease, tailoring our management to the particular challenges encountered by individual patients.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Our staff includes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"John Berk, M.D.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/amyloid\/john-l-berk-m-d\/\"><strong>John Berk, MD<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"\/amyloid\/files\/2009\/10\/Moakley2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1386 alignright\" title=\"Moakley2\" src=\"\/amyloid\/files\/2009\/10\/Moakley2-650x381.jpg\" alt=\"Moakley2\" height=\"220\" width=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/amyloid\/files\/2009\/10\/Moakley2-650x381.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/amyloid\/files\/2009\/10\/Moakley2.jpg 770w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 374px) 100vw, 374px\" \/><\/a>Airway Clinic Director<br \/>\nPulmonary Medicine<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Gregory A. Grillone, M.D.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/orl\/gregory-agrillone-md\/\"><strong>Gregory A. Grillone, MD<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/a>Otolaryngology<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Mark Katz, M.D.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bmc.org\/findaphysician\/PhysicianProfile.php?id=iZuip53577ak56Uow==\"><strong>Mark Katz, MD<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/a>Urology<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Minh-Tam Truong, M.D.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bmc.org\/findaphysician\/PhysicianProfile.php?id=iZqgpqWUmp2Xog\"><strong>Minh-Tam Truong, MD<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/a>Radiation Oncology<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/amyloid\/files\/2009\/10\/Moakley2.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmc.org\/about-us\/directory\/doctor\/xuejing-chen-md\"><strong>Xuejing Chen, MD<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<span>Ophthalmology<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although approximately 80% of our clinic patients have AL (systemic) amyloidosis, 5% of our clinic population has disease limited to one organ \u2013 localized amyloidosis.\u00a0 Frequent presentations of localized amyloidosis include: Upper and lower airway or lung deposits Bladder Eye Skin\/subcutaneous Gastrointestinal tract Breast We employ a multi-disciplinary approach for the assessment and treatment of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1079,"featured_media":0,"parent":18,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/amyloid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/amyloid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/amyloid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/amyloid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1079"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/amyloid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/amyloid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4093,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/amyloid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions\/4093"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/amyloid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/amyloid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}