Graded Cardiac Response Criteria for Patients With Systemic Light Chain Amyloidosis.
Eli MuchtarAngela DispenzieriBrendan WisniowskiGiovanni PalladiniPaolo MilaniGiampaolo MerliniStefan O SchönlandKaya VeelkenUte HegenbartSusan M GeyerShaji K KumarEfstathios KastritisMeletios- Athanasios DimopoulosMichaela LiedtkeRonald WittelesVaishali SanchorawalaRaphael SzalatHeather J LandauErica PetrlikSuzanne LentzchAlexander ColtoffJoan BladéMaria Teresa CibeiraOliver CohenDarren FoardAshutosh WechalekarMorie A GertzPublished in: Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (2022)
Graded cardiac response criteria allow better assessment of cardiac improvement compared with the traditional binary response system. The study re-emphasizes the importance of early diagnosis, which increases the likelihood of deep cardiac responses.