Acute cardiac failure secondary to senile systemic amyloidosis

作者：Bodard Quentin; Roca Frederic^*; Dilly Baptiste; Laurent Druesne; Chassagne Philippe

来源：Age and Ageing, 2016, 45(6): 908-909.

DOI：10.1093/ageing/afw073

• cardiac amyloidosis
• transthyretin amyloidosis
• senile amyloidosis
• heart failure
• older people

Hereditary or senile transthyretin (TTR) cardiac amyloidosis is a rare and underestimated cause of heart failure in old patients. New diagnostic methods, particularly cardiac MRI and proteomic analysis, have been recently developed that enable both earlier identification and development of specific treatments.
We report a case of cardiac amyloidosis revealed through late-onset heart failure.

• 出版日期2016-11