Evaluating Suspected Cardiac Amyloidosis

A 71-year-old-woman presented with breathlessness, general tiredness and orthopnea. Echocardiography and electrocardiogram were suspicious for cardiac amyloidosis. This case illustrates contemporary evaluation to confirm the diagnosis and distinguish between different types of amyloid. (Level of Dif...

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Autores principales: Motwani, Manish, Arumugam, Parthiban, Rocci, Alberto, Venetucci, Luigi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8301515/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34316771
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2019.06.027
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author Motwani, Manish
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description A 71-year-old-woman presented with breathlessness, general tiredness and orthopnea. Echocardiography and electrocardiogram were suspicious for cardiac amyloidosis. This case illustrates contemporary evaluation to confirm the diagnosis and distinguish between different types of amyloid. (Level of Difficulty: Beginner.)
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spelling pubmed-83015152021-07-26 Evaluating Suspected Cardiac Amyloidosis Motwani, Manish Arumugam, Parthiban Rocci, Alberto Venetucci, Luigi JACC Case Rep Case Report A 71-year-old-woman presented with breathlessness, general tiredness and orthopnea. Echocardiography and electrocardiogram were suspicious for cardiac amyloidosis. This case illustrates contemporary evaluation to confirm the diagnosis and distinguish between different types of amyloid. (Level of Difficulty: Beginner.) Elsevier 2019-08-21 /pmc/articles/PMC8301515/ /pubmed/34316771 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2019.06.027 Text en © 2019 Published by Elsevier on behalf of the American College of Cardiology Foundation. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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title_full Evaluating Suspected Cardiac Amyloidosis
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title_short Evaluating Suspected Cardiac Amyloidosis
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