To determine the diagnostic accuracy of the results of CSF tests compared to the gold standard PET imaging, the Munich researchers evaluated the data of over 400 patients with suspected Alzheimer's ...

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

Dive deeper into the different disciplines of sonography–including abdominal, obstetrical, gynecological, small parts examination, and much more–as you further your understanding of ultrasound ...

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 ...

Introduction: Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) and cardiac amyloidosis (CA) have similar features on transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) which may make the two difficult to distinguish. However, it ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

The severe cardiac events are often fatal, and while Abrunzo's father survived, it inspired him to take his heart health seriously, since family history is one of the strongest indicators for ...

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 ...