500-Patient registry aims to unlock secrets of rare disease amyloidosis
NCT ID NCT01347047
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jul 22, 2026 · Updated 2 times
Summary
This study is creating a registry of 500 people with amyloidosis at Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires. Researchers will track risk factors, diagnosis, treatment, and survival over time to better understand the disease. No new treatments are being tested—this is purely an observational study to gather information.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Participants
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About 500 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Apr 2011
- Finished
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Jul 2026
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
Who is studied
Adults over 18 years old with diagnosis or suspected amyloidosis of Italiano Hospital of Buenos Aires
- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Cases of amyloidosis are captured by electronic medical records whenever the physician register amyloidosis as a patient diagnosis, and/or there is amyloidosis in a biopsy specimen and/or requests for the following studies of an adult patient: plasma kappa and lambda light-chain concentrations, the kappa: lambda ratio, transthoracic Doppler echocardiography, or cardiovascular magnetic resonance examination or pyrophosphate scintigraphy From the possible cases included in the IRA, a prospective review of the electronics health records was performed to confirm the presence of amyloidosis \*\*Inclusion Criteria: 1 AND (2 or 3) 1. Patients over 18 years: 2. Confirmed amyloidosis: Proof of deposit of amyloid pathology by tissue biopsy in abdominal fat, bone marrow, rectum or organ involved (eg, kidney, liver, sural nerve) 3. Clinically compatible case of Amyloidosis : * Exclusion Criteria: Refusal to participate in the study or the informed consent process by the patient or legal representative or refusal to consent to participate in the study in the case of minors.
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
As listed by the trial registrant
The condition terms exactly as the trial's registrant entered them.
Contacts and locations
Locations
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Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, C1199, Argentina
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