A Case Report of Cardiac Amyloidosis Highlighting the Importance of Strain Analysis | Zendy

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A Case Report of Cardiac Amyloidosis Highlighting the Importance of Strain Analysis

Author(s) -

Andres Cordova Sanchez,

Ryan Murphy,

Suman Rao,

Fidel Martinez,

Stephanie J. Bryant,

Debanik Chaudhuri

Publication year - 2021

Publication title -

case reports in cardiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.106

H-Index - 5

eISSN - 2090-6412

pISSN - 2090-6404

DOI - 10.1155/2021/5673364

Subject(s) - cardiac amyloidosis , amyloidosis , medicine , strain (injury) , cardiology , heart failure

Cardiac involvement in light-chain (AL) amyloidosis has a high mortality. Once cardiac symptoms are present, it is important to make a diagnosis as there is an inverse relationship between mortality and time of diagnosis. Echocardiography is usually one of the first tests performed. But strain analysis, which can provide important clues, is not routinely performed. This is a case of AL amyloidosis presenting with heart failure in which echocardiographic strain analysis was vital for its diagnosis.

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