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Revista mexicana de cardiología

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Abstract

HARRISON GOMEZ, Carlos et al. Cardiac senile amyloidosis: a review. Rev. Mex. Cardiol [online]. 2017, vol.28, n.4, pp.180-188. ISSN 0188-2198.

Cardiac senile amyloidosis related to wild-type transthyretin is not so infrequent as previously thought, several cases of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction might be related to this infiltrative disorder. Usually it is underdiagnosed because of the requirement of histological diagnosis and reluctance to do biopsy in this frail elderly population. Noninvasive diagnostic methods available will increase diagnosis of cardiac transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTR), and the direct consequence will be more investigations and clinical trials on diagnosis and therapeutics of ATTR.

Keywords : Amyloidosis; heart failure with preserved ejection fraction.

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