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Despite the presence of various signs of cardiac amyloidosis ("red flags"), the introduction into routine practice of new non-invasive diagnostic methods (Speckle Tracking technology using echocardiography, myocardial scintigraphy with technetium pyrophosphate, genetic testing, screening for free light chains of immunoglobulins to exclude AL-amyloidosis), which have high specificity and sensitivity, transthyretinic (ATTR) cardiomyopathy is still a difficult to diagnose disease, especially in the early stages when treatment is most effective. The article presents a clinical case of ATTR-amyloidosis with predominant heart damage, manifested by severe diastolic heart failure resistant to treatment. The timing, from the moment of the first episode of decompensation of heart failure to death, is 4 months, which confirms the rapid progression of severe biventricular dysfunction of the heart.
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September 2021
Medical Research and Educational Center of the M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia Faculty of Fundamental Medicine, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.
Aim Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCMP) is a major cause for severe heart failure. Development of a combination (drug and surgery) treatment of this disease is relevant. This prospective observational study was aimed at evaluating short- and long-term results of extracardiac mesh implantation in DCMP patients with heart failure resistant to the optimum drug therapy.
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July 2016
Department of Pediatric Hematology, Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Emma Children's Hospital, Academic Medical Center (AMC), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Background: Kawasaki disease (KD) is a pediatric vasculitis with coronary artery aneurysm (CAA) as a major complication. Controversy exists about cardiovascular risk later in life. The aim of our study was to evaluate whether KD patients are at increased risk, as assessed by carotid intima-media thickness (cIMT).
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January 2017
1Department of Cardiology,Institute of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital,Aarhus,Denmark.
Background: Right heart function is an important predictor of morbidity and mortality in pulmonary arterial hypertension and many CHD. We investigated whether treatment with the prostacyclin analogue treprostinil could prevent pressure overload-induced right ventricular hypertrophy and failure.
Methods: Male Wistar rats were randomised to severe pulmonary trunk banding with a 0.
Thorac Cardiovasc Surg
December 2012
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Clinic Bogenhausen, Munich, Germany.
Background: The occurrence of severe carotid artery disease in more than 12% of patients requiring coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) results in a discrepancy concerning best treatment for both diseases. We reviewed the early outcome of patients with CABG and/or valve replacement (VR) and simultaneous carotid endarterectomy (CEA).
Methods: We retrospectively evaluated 386 patients after simultaneous operation between 7/1994 and 9/2010.
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