1. Prevalence of cardiac amyloidosis among elderly patients with systolic heart failure or conduction disorders
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Jorge Toquero-Ramos, Enrique Lara-Pezzi, Ángela López-Sainz, Ignacio Fernández-Lozano, Pablo García-Pavía, Alejandra Restrepo-Córdoba, Aitor Hernandez-Hernandez, Fernando Dominguez, Luis Alonso-Pulpón, Esther Gonzalez-Lopez, F. Javier de Haro-del Moral, Almudena Amor-Salamanca, Marta Cobo-Marcos, Isabel Krsnik, Victor Castro, and Luis Ruiz-Guerrero
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Male ,Pacemaker, Artificial ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Conduction disorders ,030204 cardiovascular system & hematology ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Internal medicine ,Internal Medicine ,medicine ,Humans ,Prealbumin ,Prospective Studies ,Radionuclide Imaging ,Aged ,Conduction disease ,Aged, 80 and over ,Amyloid Neuropathies, Familial ,biology ,business.industry ,Amyloidosis ,food and beverages ,Arrhythmias, Cardiac ,medicine.disease ,Survival Analysis ,Transthyretin ,Cross-Sectional Studies ,Cardiac amyloidosis ,Echocardiography ,Heart failure ,biology.protein ,Cardiology ,Female ,Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular ,Cardiomyopathies ,business ,Infiltration (medical) ,Biomarkers ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Heart Failure, Systolic - Abstract
Objective: Cardiac amyloid infiltration can lead to systolic heart failure (HF) or to conduction disorders (CD). Patients with transthyretin (ATTR) amyloidosis are particularly exposed. We ...
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- 2019
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