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
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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