Cardiac Involvement in Secondary Amyloidosis

Autor:	Robert W. Simms, Martha Skinner, Alan S. Cohen, Mary H. Coats, Rodney H. Falk
Rok vydání:	1991
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty Amyloid business.industry Amyloidosis Familial Mediterranean fever Autopsy Disease medicine.disease Cardiac amyloidosis Internal medicine medicine business Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis Cause of death
Zdroj:	Amyloid and Amyloidosis 1990 ISBN: 9789401054508
DOI:	10.1007/978-94-011-3284-8_192
Popis:	Cardiac symptoms are reported to occur rarely in patients with secondary (AA) amyloidosis (1), and while autopsy data have indicated that cardiac amyloid deposits occur in up to 25% of patients, the cause of death is not usually felt to be related to cardiac disease (2). Although a number of reports have documented the diagnostic utility of echocardiography in primary amyloidosis, there is little information regarding the echocardiographic and clinical cardiac features of patients with secondary amyloidosis. We sought to better characterize the clinical, electrocardiographic and echocardiographic features of secondary amyloidosis in a retrospective review of consecutive patients evaluated at the Thorndike Memorial Laboratory of Boston City Hospital.
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