10.01.2021 | EDITORIAL
Incidental detection of ATTR cardiac amyloidosis
verfasst von:
Jessica A. Quaggin-Smith, Ramsey M. Wehbe, Thomas A. Holly
Erschienen in:
Journal of Nuclear Cardiology
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Ausgabe 3/2022
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Excerpt
Despite increased recognition of the disease and new treatment options, transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis (ATTR-CA) remains an underdiagnosed cause of heart failure
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3. ATTR-CA is a subtype of systemic amyloidosis caused by misfolding of either a wild-type or mutated transthyretin protein and deposition of extracellular ATTR amyloid fibrils in myocardial tissues leading to heart failure and arrhythmias, typically in an older population
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