Cardiac amyloidosis

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Diagnosis
History & Symptoms | Physical Examination | Lab Tests | Electrocardiogram | Chest X Ray | CT | MRI | Echocardiography | Nuclear cardiac scans | Cardiac biopsy

Treatment
Medical Therapy | Cardiac transplant | Primary Prevention | Secondary Prevention

Additional Readings

 * Amyloid and amyloidosis. Gilles Grateau, Robert A. Kyle, Martha Skinner, 2005 ISBN 0-8493-3534-5

Resources

 * Amyloid Heart Disease
 * Primary cardiac amyloidosis in a young man presenting with angina pectoris
 * Microscopic amyloid deposits in the heart valves: a common local complication of chronic damage and scarring
 * Obstructive intramural coronary amyloidosis: a distinct phenotype of cardiac amyloidosis that can cause acute heart failure
 * Unique type of isolated cardiac valvular amyloidosis
 * Intracellular cardiac amyloidosis in familiar amyloid polyneuropathy of the Portuguese type