Cardiac amyloidosis differential diagnosis

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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor: Lakshmi Gopalakrishnan, M.B.B.S. [2]

Differential diagnosis

Cardiomyopathy with congestive heart failure is the most common amyloidosis syndrome, especially in patients with no history of ischemia such as the presence of prior documented myocardial infarction or presence of coronary artery disease risk factors.^[1]