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Alexandre Marins Rocha, Suzane Garcia Ferreira, Marcelo Souto Nacif, Mario Luiz Ribeiro, Marcos Raimundo Gomes de Freitas, [...]
Alexandre Marins Rocha, Suzane Garcia Ferreira, Marcelo Souto Nacif, Mario Luiz Ribeiro, Marcos Raimundo Gomes de Freitas, [...]
DOI: 10.5935/abc.20160191
Background: Amyloidosis is a disease caused by deposits of insoluble fibrils in extracellular spaces. The most common type of familial amyloidosis is mediated by mutation of transthyretin, especially Val30Met. Symptoms and ejection fraction decrease may occur in cardiac amyloidosis only in case of poor prognosis. Myocardial strain detected by two-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography can indicate changes in myocardial function at early stages of the disease. Objective: To determine the accuracy of left ventricular longitudinal strain by two-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography […]
Keywords: Amyloidosis, Familial / complications; Cardiomyopathy, Restrictive / complications; Diagnostic Imaging, Echocardiography / methods; Prealbumin / analysis