Suspecting Cardiac Amyloidosis in Congestive Heart Failure

Amyloidosis is a rare multisystem disease due to deposition of abnormal protein fragments, and cardiac amyloidosis is progressive and difficult to diagnose due to its subtle and non-specific symptoms unless the physician maintains a high degree of suspicion. This case report focuses on amyloid depos...

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Autores principales: Alatassi, Emad U, Mohamed, Alaa, Habib, Salim, Alabdul Razzak, Iyiad, Mahmoud, Anas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Cardiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7676447/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33224643
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.11046
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author Alatassi, Emad U
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Habib, Salim
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description Amyloidosis is a rare multisystem disease due to deposition of abnormal protein fragments, and cardiac amyloidosis is progressive and difficult to diagnose due to its subtle and non-specific symptoms unless the physician maintains a high degree of suspicion. This case report focuses on amyloid deposition in the heart of an 84-year-old woman who presented with symptoms of uncompensated heart failure.
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spelling pubmed-76764472020-11-19 Suspecting Cardiac Amyloidosis in Congestive Heart Failure Alatassi, Emad U Mohamed, Alaa Habib, Salim Alabdul Razzak, Iyiad Mahmoud, Anas Cureus Cardiology Amyloidosis is a rare multisystem disease due to deposition of abnormal protein fragments, and cardiac amyloidosis is progressive and difficult to diagnose due to its subtle and non-specific symptoms unless the physician maintains a high degree of suspicion. This case report focuses on amyloid deposition in the heart of an 84-year-old woman who presented with symptoms of uncompensated heart failure. Cureus 2020-10-19 /pmc/articles/PMC7676447/ /pubmed/33224643 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.11046 Text en Copyright © 2020, Alatassi 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.
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title_short Suspecting Cardiac Amyloidosis in Congestive Heart Failure
title_sort suspecting cardiac amyloidosis in congestive heart failure
topic Cardiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7676447/
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