Article: Desperately ill doctor bets on stem-cell miracle at Hackensack, N.J., hospital.

By Lindy Washburn, The Record, Hackensack, N.J. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Sep. 26--One patient was on the table and another was in the next exam room when the phone rang for Dr. Robert Manzi, a Ridgefield internist. He took it in the hallway and said, "Hi, Joe, what's up?"

It was his kidney specialist, a colleague at Holy Name Hospital in Teaneck, calling with results from Manzi's biopsy. Manzi hoped to find out why he'd been losing weight, feeling tired, and seeing suds in his urine.

"Bob," the specialist said, "you have primary systemic amyloidosis."

Manzi had read a brief entry about it in a medical textbook more ...

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