Carpal tunnel syndrome and spinal canal stenosis: harbingers of transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy?
Fabian Aus dem SiepenSelina HeinSofie PrestelChristian BaumgärtnerStefan SchönlandUte HegenbartChristoph RöckenHugo A KatusArnt V KristenPublished in: Clinical research in cardiology : official journal of the German Cardiac Society (2019)
The prevalence of CTS is high and the latency between CTS surgery and diagnosis of amyloidosis is long among patients with wt-ATTR and mt-ATTR. CTS might be predictive for future occurrence of systemic (predominantly cardiac) ATTR amyloidosis.