Prevalence and diagnostic value of extra-left ventricle echocardiographic findings in transthyretin-related cardiac amyloidosis.
Gianluca Di BellaFrancesco CappelliRoberto LicordariPaolo PiaggiMariapaola CampisiDiego BellaviaFabio MinutoliLuca GentileMassimo RussoCesare de GregorioFederico PerfettoAnna MazzeoCalogero FallettaFrancesco ClemenzaGiuseppe VitaScipione CarerjGiovanni Donato AquaroPublished in: Amyloid : the international journal of experimental and clinical investigation : the official journal of the International Society of Amyloidosis (2022)
evidence of extra left ventricle sites of amyloid deposition is a frequent finding in CA. In the context of hypertrophic phenocopies, an increased thickness of IAS, and/or CT and/or MAL should suggest a diagnosis of transthyretin CA.
Keyphrases
- pulmonary hypertension
- mitral valve
- pulmonary artery
- left ventricular
- wild type
- risk factors
- protein kinase
- computed tomography
- left atrial
- image quality
- contrast enhanced
- congenital heart disease
- optical coherence tomography
- coronary artery
- multiple myeloma
- heart failure
- magnetic resonance imaging
- magnetic resonance
- atrial fibrillation
- drug induced
- pet ct