Cardiac amyloidosis is a form of restrictive infiltrative cardiomyopathy that confers significant
mortality. Due to the relative rarity of cardiac amyloidosis, clinical and diagnostic expertise in …

Tissue deposition of protein fibrils causes a group of rare diseases called systemic
amyloidoses. This Seminar focuses on changes in their epidemiology, the current approach …

Cardiac amyloidosis is a serious and progressive infiltrative disease that is caused by the
deposition of amyloid fibrils at the cardiac level. It can be due to rare genetic variants in the …

Cardiac amyloidosis is a serious and progressive infiltrative disease that is caused by the
deposition of amyloid fibrils at the cardiac level. It can be due to rare genetic variants in the …

Cardiovascular (CV) imaging is an important tool in baseline risk assessment and detection
of CV disease in oncology patients receiving cardiotoxic cancer therapies. This position …

Strain-based imaging techniques (and specifically speckle-tracking echocardiography) have
been shown to have clinical utility in a variety of settings. This technique is being embraced …

Background Global longitudinal strain (GLS) is a robust, well validated and reproducible
technique for the measurement of LV longitudinal deformation. We sought to assemble …

The amyloidoses are a group of systemic diseases characterized by organ deposition of
misfolded protein fragments of diverse origins. The natural history of the disease …

[CQ1] What is the role of 99 mTc-PYP scintigraphy (bone scintigraphy) in clinical practice for
CA?∙∙∙∙∙∙ 1655 [CQ2] The role of endomyocardial biopsy. Which site is appropriate for biopsy …

Light chain (AL) amyloidosis is caused by a usually small plasma cell clone producing a
misfolded light chain that deposits in tissues. Survival is mostly determined by the severity of …