Heart failure associated with infiltrative cardiomyopathy in elderly patients.
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amyloidosis, heart failure, restrictive cardiomyopathy.Abstract
An 85-year-old man was referred to our hospital because of a first episode of heart failure. An echocardiography was performed, in which severe left ventricular hypertrophy was observed, more likely due to infiltrative myocardiopathy. With this clinical suspicion, a cardiac magnetic resonance was chosen to complete the study, both with result of likely cardiac amyloidosis. After these results, a genetic test was requested, with a negative result for transthyretin gene mutation, thus our patient was diagnosed as wild cardiac amyloidosis and was referred to Heart Failure Unit, where he remains clinically stable.
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