Cardiogenetics (Jan 2021)

Cardiac Amyloidosis Therapy: A Systematic Review

  • Franco Iodice,
  • Marco Di Mauro,
  • Marco Giuseppe Migliaccio,
  • Angela Iannuzzi,
  • Roberta Pacileo,
  • Martina Caiazza,
  • Augusto Esposito

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/cardiogenetics11010002
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 10 – 17

Abstract

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Heart involvement in Cardiac Amyloidosis (CA) results in a worsening of the prognosis in almost all patients with both light-chain (AL) and transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTR). The mainstream CA is a restrictive cardiomyopathy with hypertrophic phenotype at cardiac imaging that clinically leads to heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). An early diagnosis is essential to reduce cardiac damage and to improve the prognosis. Many therapies are available, but most of them have late benefits to cardiac function; for this reason, novel therapies are going to come soon.

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