Cardiac involvement in systemic light chain amyloidosis (AL) leads to chronic heart failure and is a major prognosis factor. Severe cellular defects are provoked in cardiac cells by tissue-deposited amyloid fibrils of misfolded free immunoglobulin light chains (LCs) and their prefibrillar oligomeric precursors.
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