Cardiac amyloidosis echocardiography: Difference between revisions
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==Echocardiography== | ==Echocardiography== | ||
Findings on echocardiography include: | Findings on echocardiography include:<ref name="pmid7438392">{{cite journal |author=Siqueira-Filho AG, Cunha CL, Tajik AJ, Seward JB, Schattenberg TT, Giuliani ER |title=M-mode and two-dimensional echocardiographic features in cardiac amyloidosis |journal=[[Circulation]] |volume=63 |issue=1 |pages=188–96 |year=1981 |month=January |pmid=7438392 |doi= |url=}}</ref> | ||
* Thickening of the left ventricle | * Thickening of the left ventricle | ||
* Granular or sparkling appearance of the myocardium secondary to amyloid deposition int he myocardium. This finding is especially seen best with two dimentional echocardiography. | * Granular or sparkling appearance of the myocardium secondary to amyloid deposition int he myocardium. This finding is especially seen best with two dimentional echocardiography. | ||
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Overview
Transthoracic echocardiography is most commonly used in the initial evaluation of cardiac amyloidosis. The most common echocardiographic finding is thickening of the left ventricle.
Echocardiography
Findings on echocardiography include:[1]
- Thickening of the left ventricle
- Granular or sparkling appearance of the myocardium secondary to amyloid deposition int he myocardium. This finding is especially seen best with two dimentional echocardiography.
- Thickening of interventricular septum
- Diastolic dysfunction
- Normal or reduced LV cavity
- Pericardial effusion
- RV hypertrophy
- Left atrial enlargement
- Thickened AV valves
- Right ventricular dilatation (poor prognostic marker indicating right heart failure)
References
- ↑ Siqueira-Filho AG, Cunha CL, Tajik AJ, Seward JB, Schattenberg TT, Giuliani ER (1981). "M-mode and two-dimensional echocardiographic features in cardiac amyloidosis". Circulation. 63 (1): 188–96. PMID 7438392. Unknown parameter
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