A Heart too Stiff to Beat: A Case of Familial Transthyretin Amyloidosis Cardiomyopathy

Heart failure is a common clinical syndrome caused by a variety of cardiac diseases. We report a rare case of familial transthyretin amyloidosis cardiomyopathy to heighten the awareness of this rare but lethal cause of heart failure, as therapeutic interventions such as liver or heart transplant cou...

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Autores principales: Zhou, Yan, Khalid, Sameen, Abbass, Aamer, Hughes, Laura, Hazday, Marcos
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2017
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5398907/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28435766
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1106
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author Zhou, Yan
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description Heart failure is a common clinical syndrome caused by a variety of cardiac diseases. We report a rare case of familial transthyretin amyloidosis cardiomyopathy to heighten the awareness of this rare but lethal cause of heart failure, as therapeutic interventions such as liver or heart transplant could be curative in selected patients.
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spelling pubmed-53989072017-04-21 A Heart too Stiff to Beat: A Case of Familial Transthyretin Amyloidosis Cardiomyopathy Zhou, Yan Khalid, Sameen Abbass, Aamer Hughes, Laura Hazday, Marcos Cureus Internal Medicine Heart failure is a common clinical syndrome caused by a variety of cardiac diseases. We report a rare case of familial transthyretin amyloidosis cardiomyopathy to heighten the awareness of this rare but lethal cause of heart failure, as therapeutic interventions such as liver or heart transplant could be curative in selected patients. Cureus 2017-03-20 /pmc/articles/PMC5398907/ /pubmed/28435766 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1106 Text en Copyright © 2017, Zhou et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Internal Medicine
Zhou, Yan
Khalid, Sameen
Abbass, Aamer
Hughes, Laura
Hazday, Marcos
A Heart too Stiff to Beat: A Case of Familial Transthyretin Amyloidosis Cardiomyopathy
title A Heart too Stiff to Beat: A Case of Familial Transthyretin Amyloidosis Cardiomyopathy
title_full A Heart too Stiff to Beat: A Case of Familial Transthyretin Amyloidosis Cardiomyopathy
title_fullStr A Heart too Stiff to Beat: A Case of Familial Transthyretin Amyloidosis Cardiomyopathy
title_full_unstemmed A Heart too Stiff to Beat: A Case of Familial Transthyretin Amyloidosis Cardiomyopathy
title_short A Heart too Stiff to Beat: A Case of Familial Transthyretin Amyloidosis Cardiomyopathy
title_sort heart too stiff to beat: a case of familial transthyretin amyloidosis cardiomyopathy
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5398907/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28435766
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1106
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