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Utility and pitfalls of the electrocardiogram in the evaluation of cardiac amyloidosis

Annals of Noninvasive Electrocardiology, 2022
Background Cardiac amyloidosis is a protein misfolding disorder involving deposition of amyloid fibril proteins in the heart. The associated fibrosis of the conduction tissue results in conduction abnormalities and arrhythmias.
Perryn Lin Fei Ng, Yoke Ching Lim, Lauren Kay Mance Evangelista, Raymond Ching Chiew Wong, Ping Chai, Ching Hui Sia, Hoi Yin Loi, Tiong Cheng Yeo, Weiqin Lin   +8 more
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Restrictive Atrial Dysfunction in Cardiac Amyloidosis: Differences between Immunoglobulin Light Chain and Transthyretin Cardiac Amyloidosis Patients

Biomedicines, 2022
Background: In cardiac amyloidosis, the prevalence of thromboembolic events and atrial fibrillation is higher in transthyretin amyloidosis compared to immunoglobulin light chain amyloidosis.
Mathijs O. Versteylen, Maaike Brons, Arco J. Teske, Marish I. F. J. Oerlemans   +3 more
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Cardiac amyloidosis

EXCLI Journal : Experimental and Clinical Sciences, 2023
Amyloidosis is a protein deposition disorder in which insoluble fibril structures accumulate in the bodily tissues damaging the organ function. Cardiac amyloidosis is a severe but under-reported medical condition characterized by the accumulation of ...
Gnana Deepthi Medarametla, Ripudaman Singh Kahlon, Lampimukhi Mahitha, Sanobar Shariff, Naga Praneeth Vakkalagadda, Hitesh Chopra, Mohammad Amjad Kamal, Neil Patel, Yashendra Sethi, Nirja Kaka   +9 more
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Clinical Clues and Diagnostic Workup of Cardiac Amyloidosis

Methodist DeBakey Cardiovascular Journal, 2022
Cardiac amyloidosis is increasingly recognized as an underlying cause of left ventricular wall thickening, heart failure, and arrhythmia with variable clinical presentation.
Sajan S. Gill, Eric Fellin, Lisa Stampke, Yuanzi Zhao, Ahmad Masri   +4 more
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Cardiac Amyloidosis: A Narrative Review of Diagnostic Advances and Emerging Therapies [PDF]

Biomedicines
Background/Objectives: Cardiac amyloidosis (CA) is an underdiagnosed and potentially life-threatening infiltrative cardiomyopathy characterized by the extracellular deposition of misfolded amyloid fibrils in cardiac tissue. It is most commonly associated
Dana Emilia Movila, Alexandru Catalin Motofelea, Dragos Cozma, Oana Albai, Alexandra Christa Sima, Minodora Andor, Tudor Ciocarlie, Simona Ruxanda Dragan   +7 more
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Diagnosis and treatment of cardiac amyloidosis: a position statement of the ESC Working Group on Myocardial and Pericardial Diseases.

European Heart Journal, 2021
Cardiac amyloidosis is a serious and progressive infiltrative disease that is caused by the deposition of amyloid fibrils at the cardiac level. It can be due to rare genetic variants in the hereditary forms or as a consequence of acquired conditions ...
P. García-Pavía, C. Rapezzi, Y. Adler, M. Arad, C. Basso, A. Brucato, I. Burazor, A. Caforio, T. Damy, U. Eriksson, M. Fontana, J. Gillmore, E. Gonzalez-Lopez, M. Grogan, S. Heymans, M. Imazio, I. Kindermann, A. Kristen, M. Maurer, G. Merlini, A. Pantazis, S. Pankuweit, A. Rigopoulos, A. Linhart   +23 more
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Heart Transplantation, Either Alone or Combined With Liver and Kidney, a Viable Treatment Option for Selected Patients With Severe Cardiac Amyloidosis

Transplantation Direct, 2022
Background. Heart transplantation in cardiac amyloidosis (CA) patients is possible and generally considered for transplantation if other organs are not affected.
Soulef Guendouz, MD, Philippe Grimbert, MD, PhD, Costin Radu, MD, PhD, Daniel Cherqui, MD, PhD, Chady Salloum, MD, Nicolas Mongardon, MD, PhD, Sami Maghrebi, MD, Karim Belhadj, MD, Fabien Le Bras, MD, Emmanuel Teiger, MD, PhD, Jean-Paul Couetil, MD, PhD, Adriana Balan, MD, Mounira Kharoubi, MSc, Mélanie Bézard, MSc, Silvia Oghina, MD, Diane Bodez, MD, PhD, Luc Hittinger, MD, PhD, Vincent Audard, MD, PhD, Violaine Planté-Bordeneuve, MD, PhD, Alexandre De la Taille, MD, PhD, Eric Bergoend, MD, Valerie Frenkel, MD, PhD, Pascale Fanen, MD, PhD, Vincent Leroy, MD, PhD, Christophe Duvoux, MD, PhD, Maryvonnick Carmagnat, PharmD, Thierry Folliguet, MD, PhD, Thibaud Damy, MD, PhD   +27 more
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Patisiran Treatment in Patients with Transthyretin Cardiac Amyloidosis.

New England Journal of Medicine, 2023
BACKGROUND Transthyretin amyloidosis, also called ATTR amyloidosis, is associated with accumulation of ATTR amyloid deposits in the heart and commonly manifests as progressive cardiomyopathy. Patisiran, an RNA interference therapeutic agent, inhibits the
M. S. Maurer, P. Kale, M. Fontana, J. Berk, M. Grogan, F. Gustafsson, Rebecca R Hung, R. Gottlieb, Thibaud Damy, Alejandra González-Duarte, N. Sarswat, Yoshiki Sekijima, Nobuhiro Tahara, Mark S. Taylor, M. Kubanek, E. Donal, T. Paleček, Kenichi Tsujita, W. Tang, Wen-Chung Yu, L. Obici, M. Simões, Fábio Fernandes, S. Poulsen, Igor Diemberger, F. Perfetto, S. Solomon, Marcelo F Di Carli, Prajakta Badri, M. White, Jihong Chen, E. Yureneva, M. Sweetser, P. Jay, Pushkal P. Garg, J. Vest, J. Gillmore   +36 more
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A case of cardiac amyloidosis incidentally detected by bone scintigraphy [PDF]

Asia Oceania Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Biology, 2021
A 73-year-old man with lung cancer underwent bone scintigraphy for disease staging. Diffuse myocardial technetium hydroxymethylene diphosphonate (99mTc-HMDP) uptake was incidentally found.
Hiroki Tanaka, Makoto Hosono, Mitsunori Kanagaki, Marina Shimizu, Naoko Matsubara, Kazuna Kawabata, Tadashi Miyamoto, Kazumi Itoi   +7 more
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Cardiac amyloidosis and aortic stenosis: a state-of-the-art review

European Heart Journal Open, 2023
Cardiac amyloidosis is caused by the extracellular deposition of amyloid fibrils in the heart, involving not only the myocardium but also any cardiovascular structure.
Vikash Jaiswal, Vibhor Agrawal, Yashita Khulbe, Muhammad Hanif, H. Huang, Maha Hameed, A. Shrestha, F. Perone, Charmy Parikh, Sabas Ivan Gomez, K. Paudel, Jerome S. Zacks, Kendra J. Grubb, S. De Rosa, Alessia Gimelli   +14 more
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