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- Title
Evolutive echocardiographic changes in cardiac amyloidosis: Look at the whole picture.
- Authors
Gual‐Capllonch, Francisco; Teis, Albert; Ferrer, Elena; Bayes‐Genis, Antoni
- Abstract
Doppler echocardiogram provides not only structural information about heart chambers, valves and pericardium but also contributes to functional assessment. A unique feature of this assessment is its variability, not only due to heart disease course but also related to extracardiac conditions. We present a case of primary amyloidosis with two atypical characteristics: left ventricular outflow obstruction and low‐grade diastolic dysfunction. Nevertheless, a more typical picture of cardiac amyloidosis was observed in the evolution of the disease coinciding with a second cardiac stressor, emphasizing the necessity of not focusing our attention exclusively to the heart.
- Subjects
DIASTOLE (Cardiac cycle); DOPPLER echocardiography; CARDIAC amyloidosis; VENTRICULAR outflow obstruction; FUNCTIONAL assessment
- Publication
Echocardiography, 2018, Vol 35, Issue 7, p1042
- ISSN
0742-2822
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/echo.14033