Amy Brownell, MSN, FNP-C, AACC, System Director of Heart Failure, AMITA Health, Chicago, IL; Sarah C. Paciulli, MS, RN, CHFN, NP-C, VCU Health, Richmond, VA; and Lori Roth, MS, PA-C, Advanced Heart Failure Clinic, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas TX, explain the usefulness of the six-minute walk test in clinical practice and to patients.

Lori Roth, MS, PA-C, Advanced Heart Failure Clinic, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX; Sarah C. Paciulli, MS, RN, CHFN, NP-C, VCU Health, Richmond, VA; and Amy Brownell, MSN, FNP-C, AACC, System Director of Heart Failure, AMITA Health, Chicago, IL, review the rationale for stabilization as the optimal approach to addressing transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy.

Lori Roth, MS, PA-C, Advanced Heart Failure Clinic, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX; Sarah C. Paciulli, MS, RN, CHFN, NP-C, VCU Health, Richmond, VA; and Amy Brownell, MSN, FNP-C, AACC, System Director of Heart Failure, AMITA Health, Chicago, IL, discuss the debilitating disease burden and the pathway to transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy diagnosis.

In this first video clip, Sarah C. Paciulli, MS, RN, CHFN, NP-C, VCU Health, Richmond, VA; Amy Brownell, MSN, FNP-C, AACC, System Director of Heart Failure, AMITA Health, Chicago, IL; and Lori Roth, MS, PA-C, Advanced Heart Failure Clinic, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, describe the functions of transthyretin (TTR) in its naturally occurring tetrameric form and resulting damage from TTR destabilization.