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SUBMITTER: Randhawa VK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7261535 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
ESC heart failure 20200316 3
Cardiac amyloidosis results in an infiltrative restrictive cardiomyopathy, with a number of characteristic features: biventricular hypertrophy, abnormal myocardial global longitudinal strain with relative apical sparing, biatrial dilation, and small pericardial effusion along with conduction abnormalities. Amyloid deposits leading to hemodynamically significant valvular heart disease are very rare. We describe a rare case of concomitant moderately severe tricuspid and mitral valve stenosis becau ...[more]