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ArticleJournal of cardiology cases2020

Insight from an autopsy in a patient with rapidly worsening heart failure due to amyloid light-chain cardiac amyloidosis: A case report.

Hiroaki Yokoyama, Koki Shishido, Junko Ito, Wataru Kamata, Nagaaki Katoh, Shigeru Saito

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Article in Journal of cardiology cases, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Hiroaki YokoyamaDepartment of Cardiology and Catheterization Laboratories, Shonan Kamakura General Hospital, Kamakura, Japan.
Koki ShishidoDepartment of Cardiology and Catheterization Laboratories, Shonan Kamakura General Hospital, Kamakura, Japan.
Junko ItoDepartment of Diagnostic Pathology, Shonan Kamakura General Hospital, Kamakura, Japan.
Wataru KamataDepartment of Hematology, Shonan Kamakura General Hospital, Kamakura, Japan.
Nagaaki KatohDepartment of Medicine (Neurology and Rheumatology), Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Japan.
Shigeru SaitoDepartment of Cardiology and Catheterization Laboratories, Shonan Kamakura General Hospital, Kamakura, Japan.
Shonan Kamakura General Hospital · JPShinshu University · JP

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Abstract

Amyloid light-chain (AL) amyloidosis is a systemic disease characterized by the deposition of misfolded immunoglobulin light chain, causing organ failure, and in particular cardiac involvement is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality. We report the case of a 47-year-old man without prior cardiovascular events who presented with shortness of breath. He was diagnosed with primary AL cardiac amyloidosis (CA) from the laboratory test, the endomyocardial biopsy, the bone marrow examination, and the cardiovascular imaging. Only a week after discharge of the first heart failure (HF) admission, he was readmitted for the exacerbation of HF. Finally, he died 2 weeks after the second admission, that is 3 months after the onset of HF. Autopsy, which was performed to investigate the causes of rapid worsening HF, implied the impairment of ventricular function and coronary microcirculation dysfunction. We could diagnose CA immediately by using diagnostic tools, however, we recognized that there was the fulminant type in CA, and considered the insight from autopsy. 〈

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AutopsyCardiac amyloidosisHeart failure

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