{"id":69,"date":"2009-10-23T15:09:42","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T19:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/amyloid\/patients\/evaluation\/"},"modified":"2020-06-03T12:05:24","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T16:05:24","slug":"evaluation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/amyloid\/evaluations\/evaluation\/","title":{"rendered":"How Does the Initial Evaluation Work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mceTemp\">During evaluation at The Amyloidosis Center, a patient&#8217;s care is coordinated by one <span>of our internal medicine physicians and nurse practitioners along with <\/span>a multi-disciplinary clinical team. This Amyloidosis Center Clinical Team is comprised of physicians from various disciplines (including but not limited to hematology, cardiology, pulmonology, nephrology, rheumatology, and neurology). This ensures a total evaluation of the individual medical needs and helps to determine the extent of amyloidosis throughout the body.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mceTemp\">The preliminary results of the evaluation are given to patients at the time of the final conference, and a final summary including recommendations is subsequently sent to the referring or personal physician who is ultimately responsible for the patient&#8217;s care as well as to the patient. \u00a0Should a patient be found eligible for one of our clinical trials and decide to participate, they meet with physicians who will inform them of how to proceed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mceTemp\">After returning home, patients and their physicians are encouraged to call one of the Amyloidosis Center physicians at 617-358-4750 if questions arise concerning care. We usually suggest a return evaluation on a yearly basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During evaluation at The Amyloidosis Center, a patient&#8217;s care is coordinated by one of our internal medicine physicians and nurse practitioners along with a multi-disciplinary clinical team. This Amyloidosis Center Clinical Team is comprised of physicians from various disciplines (including but not limited to hematology, cardiology, pulmonology, nephrology, rheumatology, and neurology). This ensures a total [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1963,"featured_media":0,"parent":312,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/amyloid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69"}],"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\/1963"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/amyloid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/amyloid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4087,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/amyloid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69\/revisions\/4087"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/amyloid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/amyloid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}