Cardiac amyloidosis: state-of-the-art review.

ABSTRACT: Cardiac amyloidosis (CA) is caused by deposition of amyloid fibrils in the myocardium and has two main subtypes, transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis (ATTR) and immunoglobulin light chain cardiac amyloidosis (AL). ATTR is further differentiated into wild-type (wtATTR) and hereditary (hATTR), depending on the absence or presence of mutation in the transthyretin gene. The increased recognition of disease with the improvement in diagnostic armamentarium and serendipitous advancements in the therapeutic landscape have changed the status of CA from being a rare and untreatable disease to being a not-so-rare and treatable disease. Both ATTR and AL have certain clinical aspects that can provide early clues for the disease. While electrocardiography followed by echocardiography and subsequently cardi

SUBMITTER: Bukhari S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10308177 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature