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A thousand words about the imaging in cardiac amyloidosis

Author(s) -

Rafał Dankowski,

Marek Leszniewski,

Małgorzata Pyda,

Andrzej Szyszka

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

journal of medical science

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2353-9801

pISSN - 2353-9798

DOI - 10.20883/jms.350

Subject(s) - cardiac amyloidosis , amyloidosis , medicine , cardiac magnetic resonance , cardiomyopathy , restrictive cardiomyopathy , magnetic resonance imaging , disease , cardiology , cardiac imaging , radiology , pathology , heart failure

Cardiac amyloidosis is an infiltrative disease which usually occurs under the form of restrictive cardiomyopathy. Advances in the treatment have changed the unfavorable outcomes of this disease. Thus, early diagnosis is essential. Recent advances in echocardiography and cardiac magnetic resonance provided new modalities for the detection of cardiac amyloidosis. This summary discusses the role of imaging techniques in the diagnosis of cardiac amyloidosis.

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