Cardiac amyloidosis mimicking severe aortic valve stenosis – a case report demonstrating diagnostic pitfalls and role of dobutamine stress echocardiography

BACKGROUND: Aortic valve stenosis is a common finding diagnosed with high sensitivity in transthoracic echocardiography, but the examiner often finds himself confronted with uncertain results in patients with moderate pressure gradients and concomitant systolic heart failure. While patients with tru...

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Autores principales: Salinger, Tim, Hu, Kai, Liu, Dan, Herrmann, Sebastian, Lorenz, Kristina, Ertl, Georg, Nordbeck, Peter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5361717/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28330445
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12872-017-0519-0

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5361717/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28330445
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12872-017-0519-0

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