Name: Jim Hunter
Type: Familial
Diagnosis: Sept. 1996
Treatment: Heart and Liver transplants
Symptoms: cardiac first, then neuropathy
Diagnosed by: Boston University Medical Center
Type of familial: ALA60
Treatment: Heart transplant June 6,1998; Liver transplant March 1,2000. Both at University of North Carolina Hospitals in Chapel Hill,NC
Domino: the liver transplant was a domino one where my old amyloid-producing liver was transplanted into another man on the waiting list. My old liver performed liver functions well and relieved his hepatitis problem. He lived for over nine years with my liver, never having any amyloid issues.
Home: Pinehurst,NC
Email: jimhunter@nc.rr.com