San Diego woman with rare disease receives first breakthrough treatment at UC San Diego

A local nursing school graduate is one of the first in the country to be treated with a new medication used to fight a rare, incurable protein disorder.

In July, University of California San Diego Health was the first to offer the therapy used to treat a Hereditary Transthyretin Amyloidosis, which is often fatal.


“I had severe pain in my wrist all the way my arm through my shoulder. Some days I wouldn't be able to lift my arm, it was so painful,” said Nancy Kim.

When the mother was 25-years-old, she started feeling severe nerve pain and knew it wasn't good.

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