Cardiac Amyloidosis Presenting as Severe Mitral Regurgitation

Autor:	Tanvir Bajwa, Khawaja Afzal Ammar, Suhail Allaqaband, Bijoy K. Khandheria, Steven C. Port, Renuka Jain, Gary Neitzel, A. Jamil Tajik
Rok vydání:	2016
Předmět:	Technetium Tc 99m Sestamibi 0301 basic medicine medicine.medical_specialty Biopsy medicine.medical_treatment Echocardiography Three-Dimensional macromolecular substances 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology Severity of Illness Index 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Internal medicine Severity of illness medicine Humans Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging cardiovascular diseases Heart transplantation Mitral regurgitation medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Amyloidosis Mitral Valve Insufficiency medicine.disease Echocardiography Doppler Color 030104 developmental biology Cardiac amyloidosis cardiovascular system Cardiology Heart Transplantation Radiopharmaceuticals Cardiomyopathies Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine business Echocardiography Transesophageal
Zdroj:	JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging. 9:1003-1006
ISSN:	1936-878X
DOI:	10.1016/j.jcmg.2016.03.011
Popis:	Although mild to moderate mitral regurgitation is common in cardiac amyloidosis (CA), severe mitral regurgitation as the primary presenting finding is rare [(1)][1]. We present 3 such cases of patients with severe mitral regurgitation who on further workup were discovered to have CA [(2)][2] ([
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