Does the apical sparing pattern on echocardiography accurately identify cardiac amyloidosis compared to clinically similar controls?
The apical sparing pattern on echocardiography may not be as specific for cardiac amyloidosis as previously thought when compared to clinically similar patients without the disease.
Apical sparing did not prove to be a CA-specific biomarker for accurate identification of CA, when compared with clinically similar CTRLs with no CA.
Cotella et al. (Thu,) studied this question.