Amiloidosis cardíaca: reporte de caso

• DOI: 10.47487/apcyccv.v3i2.207
• Publication Date: 2022-07-11T18:36:00Z
• Authors: Adriana E. Viñas-...; Mario B. García-S...
• Keywords: Cardiac Amyloidosis; Physiology; Life Sciences; FOS: Humanities; Light Chain Amyloidosis; 3. Good health; Clinical Characteristics and Management of Sarcoidosis; Hypereosinophilic Syndrome and Related Disorders; Humanities; 03 medical and health sciences; 0302 clinical medicine; Rheumatology; Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology; FOS: Biological sciences; Health Sciences; Medicine; Molecular Mechanisms of Amyloidosis; Reporte De Caso; Molecular Biology; Art

Amyloidosis is a multisystem disease caused by infiltration of misfolded proteins; cardiac involvement determines its prognosis. There are several types precursor proteins capable causing the disease; however, only two affect heart, clonal immunoglobulin light chains (AL) and tetrameric transthyretin (TTR) protein. It an underdiagnosed and, in late stages, it has poor We present case older adult patient with progressive extracardiac manifestations, as well laboratory echocardiographic criteria that brought us closer to diagnosis amyloidosis also allowed assess The had torpid evolution fatal outcome. pathological anatomy studies confirm our diagnostic presumption.