Table 1. Clinical symptoms and signs of cardiac amyloidosis.
Signs and symptoms | ||
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Cardiac | ||
Clinical symptoms | Heart failure, intolerance to beta blockers or ACE inhibitors, hypotension or normotensive if previously hypertensive | |
ECG | Pseudo-infarct pattern, low QRS voltage to degree of LV thickness, AV conduction disease | |
Echocardiography | Myocardial walls-granular sparkling, increased thickness of RV wall, increased valve thickness, pericardial effusion, decreased longitudinal strain, and apical sparing pattern | |
CMR | Subendocardial /transmural LGE, increase in native T1 value and ECV in extracellular volume | |
Blood test | Disproportionately elevated NT-proBNP, sustainably elevated troponin | |
Extracardiac | ||
Peripheral neuropathy | ||
Autonomic neuropathy | ||
AL | Proteinuria, renal failure, bruises/periorbital purpura, macroglossia, MGUS | |
ATTR | Lumbar spinal stenosis, family history of ATTR, vitreous deposit, biceps tendon rupture, bilateral carpal tunnel syndrome |
ACE = angiotensin converting enzyme; ECG = electrocardiogram; LV = left ventricle; AV = atrioventricular; RV = right ventricle; CMR = cardiac magnetic resonance; LGE = late gadolinium enhancement; ECV = extracelluar volume; NT-proBNP = N-terminal pro b type natriuretic peptide; AL = light-chain amyloidosis; MGUS = monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance; ATTR = transthyretin amyloidosis.