Background Fabry disease (FD) causes multiorgan sphingolipid accumulation, with cardiac involvement responsible for the ...

All patients (n=34) attending the hereditary amyloidosis referral clinic under the joint care of subspecialist cardiac and neurology teams—the Irish Expert Amyloidosis Network—were assessed for ...

Diagnosis and treatment may be challenging at first because the symptoms and causes vary between different types of amyloidosis. They may also mimic other conditions, such as heart disease.

Cardiac Amyloidosis is often underdiagnosed due to the heterogeneity of clinical presentation, disease rarity, and clinician unfamiliarity with diagnosis and management. Studies have shown that timely ...

Background: Discriminating Fabry disease from cardiac amyloidosis based on conventional imaging techniques can be challenging due to overlapping features. We aimed to investigate the discriminatory ...

Of these, 5 had renal biopsy–confirmed renal AL amyloidosis, and 1 had LCDD ... He died in February 2008 from cardiac arrest. Patient 4 An asymptomatic 68-year-old woman who had presented ...

These genes have a stronger effect in causing heart disease, making specific heart conditions more easily passed down through families. Other heart conditions, like high blood pressure and ...

Several case reports and retrospective cohort studies have described a marginal benefit with the use of internal cardioverter defibrillators in patients with cardiac amyloidosis. Detection of ...

For the first time, the British Thoracic Society (BTS), National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) have collaborated to develop ...

Cardiac amyloidosis is becoming increasingly recognized as an etiology for heart failure (HF). Most cases of amyloid cardiomyopathy will fall into one of two categories: light-chain amyloid (AL) ...

Cardiac amyloidosis is a rare condition defined by the abnormal production of proteins that bind together to form amyloid proteins. These amyloids can gather in different organs throughout the ...