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ReviewInternal and emergency medicine2022

Circulating biomarkers in diagnosis and management of cardiac amyloidosis: a review for internist.

Federico Perfetto, Mattia Zampieri, Carlo Fumagalli, Marco Allinovi, Francesco Cappelli

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Review in Internal and emergency medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Federico PerfettoRegional Referral Center for Systemic Amyloidosis, Careggi University Hospital, Largo Brambilla 3, 50134, Florence, Italy. federico.perfetto@unifi.it.ORCID 0000-0003-0276-8331
Mattia ZampieriRegional Referral Center for Systemic Amyloidosis, Careggi University Hospital, Largo Brambilla 3, 50134, Florence, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-1140-134X
Carlo FumagalliRegional Referral Center for Systemic Amyloidosis, Careggi University Hospital, Largo Brambilla 3, 50134, Florence, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-7963-5049
Marco AllinoviRegional Referral Center for Systemic Amyloidosis, Careggi University Hospital, Largo Brambilla 3, 50134, Florence, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-9949-3543
Francesco CappelliRegional Referral Center for Systemic Amyloidosis, Careggi University Hospital, Largo Brambilla 3, 50134, Florence, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-1622-0732
Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Careggi · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cardiac amyloidosis (CA) is due to extracellular myocardial deposition of misfolded proteins resulting in severe cardiac dysfunction and death. The precursors of amyloid fibrils, able of determining a relevant cardiac infiltration, are immunoglobulin-free light chains (AL amyloidosis) and transthyretin (TTR) (both wild and mutated types). The diagnosis of amyloidosis represents a challenge for the clinician given its rarity and its protean clinical presentation, thus an early diagnosis remains a cornerstone for the prognosis of these patients, also in light of the growing available treatments. There is great interest in identifying and applying biomarkers to help diagnose, inform prognosis, guide therapy, and serve as surrogate endpoints in these patients. In AL amyloidosis, biomarkers such as free light chains, natriuretic peptides and troponins are the most extensively studied and validated; they have proved useful in risk stratification, guiding treatment choice and monitoring hematological and organ response. A similar biomarker-based prognostic score is also proposed for ATTR amyloidosis, although studies are small and need to be validated for wild-type and mutant forms.

Indexed as

AmyloidosisCardiomyopathiesImmunoglobulin Light-chain AmyloidosisBiomarkersHumansImmunoglobulin Light ChainsPrognosisBiomarkersImmunoglobulin Light ChainsAL cardiac amyloidosisATTR cardiac amyloidosisFree light chainsNT-proBNPTransthyretinTroponin

Identifiers

PMID35325395
PMCPMC9135845
OpenAlexW4221133226

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