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This editorial highlights the importance of considering cardiac amyloid deposition as a cause of heart failure in older black patients, beyond coronary atherosclerosis.
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Highlights the importance of considering cardiac amyloidosis as a cause of heart failure in older patients, particularly in black populations.
In past decades, rheumatic heart disease, syphilitic heart disease, hypertensive heart disease, and even nutritional deficiencies were common enough for physicians to consider these diagnoses in patients presenting with congestive heart failure. In recent years, however, our attention has been directed to coronary atherosclerosis, and the idea that older patients with heart failure could have cardiac diseases other than coronary atherosclerosis is rarely considered. The article by Jacobson et al. in this issue of the Journal on the incidence of cardiac amyloid deposition in blacks is therefore important.1 Jacobson et al. point out that we should be alert to a . . .
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Merrill D. Benson (1997) conducted an editorial in Heart failure and cardiac amyloidosis. This editorial highlights the importance of considering cardiac amyloid deposition as a cause of heart failure in older black patients, beyond coronary atherosclerosis.
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