cardiac amyloidosiscardiac surgeryrare diseaseRare diseases are serious, chronic, and potentially lethal. The European Union (EU) definition of a rare disease is one that affects fewer than 5 in 10 000 people. In the EU, these rare diseases are estimated to affect up to 8% of the roughly ...
Cardiac amyloidosis.This rare condition causes amyloid protein to build up in the blood and collect in the body's organs, including the heart, leading to a thickening of the heart's walls. Pregnancy.Your heart may enlarge around the time of delivery (peripartum cardiomyopathy). ...
Certainly, the COVID-19 virus can increase the risk of cardiac decompensation. And in the past, so the SARS-MERS virus, again, that showed increases in the risk of ACS in patients, there was increase in the risk of acute coronary syndrome, heart failure decompensation, and so forth and ...
Cardiac amyloid: Approximately 10% of patients with MM can have concomitant light chain (AL) amyloidosis, the most common type of systemic amyloidosis associated with plasma cell dyscrasias; often this association is missed at the time of MM diagnosis. In amyloidosis, heart involvement is seen in ...
Despite its importance, there is limited literature addressing this phenomenon, leaving several questions unanswered. PURPOSE. This study aims to examine the regional distribution of [99mTc]Tc-Diphosphonate in the left ventricle of patients diagnosed with transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis (TTR-CA). ...
Desmin-related cardiomyopathy in transgenic mice: a cardiac amyloidosis. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2004; 101:10132-6.Sanbe A, Osinska H, Saffitz JE, Glabe CG, Kayed R, Maloyan A, Robbins J. Desmin-related cardiomyopathy in transgenic mice: a cardiac amyloidosis. Pr...
9.3. CKD Due to Amyloidosis from Skin Popping with Opioids In the 1980s, "skin popping" a form of intradermal injection, usually after consuming normal venous access by illicit drug users were noted to be connected to amyloidosis. Patients presented with chronic suppurative skin infections, ...