To retrospectively identify the critical characteristics and prognostic factors of light-chain amyloidosis. Patients and Methods: Data were collected and compared from 91 patients who were diagnosed with light-chain amyloidosis at four hospitals between January 2010 and November 2018. We analyzed the clinical characteristics and performed an overall survival (OS) analysis. Results: Patients (median age, 60 years) were diagnosed with organ involvement of the kidney (91.2%), heart (56%), liver (14.3%), soft tissue (18.7%), or gastrointestinal tract (15.4%), and 68.1% of patients had more than two organs involved. Patients were most treated with bortezomib-based regimens (56%), and only one patient had autologous stem cell transplantation (auto-ASCT). The median OS was 36.33 months and was influenced by the ECOG score, renal involvement, cardiac involvement, hepatic involvement, and persistence of positive immunofixation. Patients who received bortezomib-based treatment had a trend of favorable OS compared to those who received non-bortezomib-based treatments, but the difference was not statistically significant. Although the overall number of organs involved was not related to OS, the number of organs involved in the heart, liver and kidney was related. Multivariate analysis indicated that cardiac involvement and negative hematologic response with persistence of positive immunofixation were independent prognostic factors for OS. Conclusion: Cardiac involvement and the hematologic response to treatment were independent prognostic factors for OS in light-chain amyloidosis patients.
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