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What are the M-mode and two-dimensional echocardiographic features of cardiac amyloidosis in patients with heart failure?
What are the M-mode and two-dimensional echocardiographic features of cardiac amyloidosis in patients with heart failure?
Two-dimensional echocardiography identifies a characteristic 'granular sparkling' appearance in thickened cardiac walls that is highly suggestive of cardiac amyloidosis in patients with unexplained heart failure.
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May aid echocardiographic suspicion of cardiac amyloidosis in HF; case-report data leave open prospective validation.
Siqueira-Filho et al. (1981) studied this question.
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