Robert Jordan, author of the "Wheel of Time" fantasy series, died of this disease in 2007.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Jordan#Illness_and_deat...

maxlybbert 8 days ago | parent | next [-]

That was my first thought, too. I guess the condition's name is pretty memorable.

It's been almost twenty years, so it shouldn't surprise me that new research means that people who died in the past maybe could have survived longer if we had known better. And, of course, Jordan was going to die some day. But I certainly wish he'd had more time.

	▲	pfdietz 7 days ago \| parent [-]
		Another example of this is the famous mathematician David Hilbert. He came down with pernicious anemia in 1925 and suffered permanent damage, so much so that in the words of Eugene Wigner, "was hardly a scientist after 1925, and certainly not a Hilbert". Today, PA is easily treated with vitamin B12 injections.

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dogmatism 8 days ago | parent | prev [-]

it's not clear if he had ATTR or AL amyloid