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Cardiac amyloidosis presents diagnostic challenges on echocardiography as it can mimic hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, and hypertensive heart disease.
Cardiac amyloidosis can be challenging to diagnose via echocardiography as it mimics various other cardiac conditions such as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and heart failure with preserved ejection fraction.
Echocardiographic diagnosis of cardiac amyloidosis: Does the masquerader require only a "cherry on top"?Cardiac involvement of amyloidosis can be challenging to diagnose because of the varying clinical and imaging manifestations.When present, the disease may mimic a variety of other cardiac illnesses, such as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, left ventricular hypertrophy of any cause, heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, or hypertensive heart disease.Cardiac amyloidosis may even coexist with aortic stenosis 1 and other patients with new-onset atrial fibrillation.2 In this
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Kiotsekoglou et al. (2020) conducted an editorial in Cardiac amyloidosis. Cardiac amyloidosis presents diagnostic challenges on echocardiography as it can mimic hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, and hypertensive heart disease.
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