Heart Failure Due to Cardiac Transthyretin Amyloidosis

January 2021 in “ ABC Heart Failure & Cardiomyopathy ”

Humberto Butzke da Motta, Guilherme Oliveira Magalhães Costa, Andréia Biolo

Studysummary This case report describes a 90-year-old man diagnosed with wild-type transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis, confirmed by pyrophosphate cardiac scintigraphy and exclusion of gene mutations.

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