Catastrophic Cardiac Amyloidosis

We report a case of a 61-year-old patient presenting with cardiogenic shock. His echocardiogram suggested typical features of cardiac amyloidosis. This case demonstrates that cardiac amyloidosis can present acutely and may be catastrophic.

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Autores principales: Panduranga, Prashanth, Mukhaini, Mohammed
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE-Hindawi Access to Research 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2995927/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21151651
http://dx.doi.org/10.4061/2011/479314
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author Panduranga, Prashanth
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spelling pubmed-29959272010-12-13 Catastrophic Cardiac Amyloidosis Panduranga, Prashanth Mukhaini, Mohammed Cardiol Res Pract Case Report We report a case of a 61-year-old patient presenting with cardiogenic shock. His echocardiogram suggested typical features of cardiac amyloidosis. This case demonstrates that cardiac amyloidosis can present acutely and may be catastrophic. SAGE-Hindawi Access to Research 2010-12-01 /pmc/articles/PMC2995927/ /pubmed/21151651 http://dx.doi.org/10.4061/2011/479314 Text en Copyright © 2011 P. Panduranga and M. Mukhaini. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Panduranga, Prashanth
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Catastrophic Cardiac Amyloidosis
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title_short Catastrophic Cardiac Amyloidosis
title_sort catastrophic cardiac amyloidosis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2995927/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21151651
http://dx.doi.org/10.4061/2011/479314
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