Perivascular Amyloid Deposition in Immunoglobulin Light Chain Cardiac Amyloidosis and Its Implications on Echocardiographic Cardiac Remodeling

J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2024 Oct;37(10):1010-1012. doi: 10.1016/j.echo.2024.06.014. Epub 2024 Jul 2.

Affiliations

¹ Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, Illinois.
² Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia.
³ Department of Internal Medicine, Nazareth Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
⁴ Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio.

PMID: 38960211
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2024.06.014

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Aged
Amyloid / metabolism
Amyloidosis / diagnosis
Cardiomyopathies*
Echocardiography* / methods
Female
Humans
Immunoglobulin Light Chains / metabolism
Immunoglobulin Light-chain Amyloidosis / complications
Male
Middle Aged
Myocardium / metabolism
Myocardium / pathology
Ventricular Remodeling / physiology

Substances

Immunoglobulin Light Chains
Amyloid