Biopsy Evidence of Sequential Transthyretin and Immunoglobulin Light-Chain Cardiac Amyloidosis in the Same Patient

Biopsy Evidence of Sequential Transthyretin and Immunoglobulin Light-Chain Cardiac Amyloidosis in the Same Patient

Currently adopted diagnostic flow charts consider transthyretin and light-chain cardiac amyloidosis as mutually exclusive. Here, we report for the first time, to our knowledge, the demonstration of a biopsy-proven dual pathology in an 80-year-old man with sequential development of both wild-type tra...

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Main Authors: Giuseppe Vergaro, MD, PhD, Vincenzo Castiglione, MD, Roberta Poletti, MD, Gabriele Buda, MD, Angela Pucci, MD, PhD, Veronica Musetti, BSc, Dario Genovesi, MD, Alberto Aimo, MD, Claudio Passino, MD, Michele Emdin, MD, PhD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-03-01
Series:JACC: Case Reports
Subjects:
AL amyloidosis
ATTR amyloidosis
cardiac amyloidosis
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666084921001261

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