Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a worldwide growing epidemic associated with an
increased risk of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Left ventricular (LV) global …

Deformation imaging by echocardiography is a well-established research tool which has
been gaining interest from clinical cardiologists since the introduction of speckle tracking …

Amyloidosis includes a group of diseases characterized by the accumulation of amyloid
fibrils derived from the aggregation of misfolded proteins in the extracellular spaces of …

Background The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that intrinsic cardiac
elastography can detect diastolic tissue abnormalities produced by cardiac amyloid …

Systemic amyloidoses are rare, complex diseases caused by misfolding of autologous
proteins. Although these diseases are fatal, effective treatments exist that can alter their …

Abstract Objectives: Light-chain (AL) amyloidosis can lead to an infiltrative cardiomyopathy
with increased wall thickness (IWT) of very poor prognosis. Our primary aim was to analyse …

Speckle tracking echocardiography is an imaging method, based on analysis of 2D
echocardiographic images, that is useful in providing information on tissue deformation in …

11C-Pittsburgh compound B (PiB) PET/CT visualizes the amount of myocardial amyloid
deposit and can be used to prognosticate patients with amyloid light-chain (AL) cardiac …

The aim of this study was to assess cardiac deformation patterns in myocarditis applying
feature tracking imaging (FTI) to cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) images. Thirty …

Background Light-chain (AL) amyloidosis is the most common type of systemic amyloidosis
with poor prognosis. Currently, the predictors of cardiac involvement and prognostic staging …