Primary generalized amyloidosis with restrictive cardiomyopathy and severe chronic cardiac insufficiency
Borovkov, N.N.; Amineva, N.V.; Kovaleva, G.V.; Sal'tseva, M.T.; Paĭkova, N.N.; Kuznetsov, S.S.
Klinicheskaia Meditsina 87(12): 60-62
2009
ISSN/ISBN: 0023-2149 PMID: 20135890 Document Number: 632079
The paper reports a case of restrictive cardiomyopathy due to cardiac amyloidosis. Diagnosis of this condition encounters difficulty created by the absence of pathognomonic symptoms of the disease. Major manifestations of amyloid cardiomyopathy are refractive chronic cardiac insufficiency, absence of cardiomyalgia, marked deterioration of diastolic filling of both ventricles, systemic hypotension, and disturbed heart rhythms.