June 1, 2023Open Access
View Full PaperJune 2023 at a Glance: Focus on Worsening Heart Failure, Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction and Valvular Heart Disease
Key Result
Diagnostic pathways for ATTR-wt CA included incidental imaging (23%) and clinical assessment (19%), but prognosis was associated with age, NYHA class, and comorbidities rather than the pathway.
Structured PICO
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Population
Patients with wild-type transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis (ATTR-wt CA)
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Outcome
Prognosis
In patients with ATTR-wt CA, prognosis is driven by age, heart failure severity, and comorbidities rather than the specific diagnostic pathway.
Main Result
Absolute Event Rate: 0% vs 0%
Abstract
ATTR-wt CA), and associated with older age and more advanced New York Heart Association (NYHA) class.Additional diagnostic pathways were a previous diagnosis of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (7%), incidental imaging (23%) and incidental clinical assessment (19%).The prognosis was associated with age, NYHA class and comorbidities, rather than the diagnostic pathway. 22
Cite This Study
Tomasoni et al. (Thu,) reported a other. Diagnostic pathways for ATTR-wt CA included incidental imaging (23%) and clinical assessment (19%), but prognosis was associated with age, NYHA class, and comorbidities rather than the pathway.