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ReviewJACC. Cardiovascular imaging2025

The Last Decade in Cardiac Amyloidosis: Advances in Understanding Pathophysiology, Diagnosis and Quantification, Prognosis, Treatment Strategies, and Monitoring Response.

Marianna Fontana, Adam Ioannou, Sarah Cuddy, Sharmila Dorbala, Ahmad Masri, James C Moon, Vasvi Singh, Olivier Clerc, Mazen Hanna, Fredrick Ruberg and 3 more

Abstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in JACC. Cardiovascular imaging, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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45citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

45 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  4. Unraveling cardiac amyloidosis in Egypt: diagnostic challenges and disease outcomes.The Egyptian heart journal : (EHJ) : official bulletin of the Egyptian Society of Cardiology · 2026
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  15. CMR-based assessment of long-term effects of tafamidis in patients with cardiac transthyretin amyloidosis.Clinical research in cardiology : official journal of the German Cardiac Society · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Marianna FontanaNational Amyloidosis Centre, University College London, Royal Free Campus, Rowland Hill Street, London, United Kingdom. Electronic address: m.fontana@ucl.ac.uk.
Adam IoannouNational Amyloidosis Centre, University College London, Royal Free Campus, Rowland Hill Street, London, United Kingdom.
Sarah CuddyDepartment of Medicine and Radiology, CV Imaging Program, Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Sharmila DorbalaDepartment of Medicine and Radiology, CV Imaging Program, Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Ahmad MasriOHSU Center for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy and Amyloidosis, Portland, Oregon, USA.
James C MoonInstitute of Cardiovascular Science, University College London, United Kingdom.
Vasvi SinghDepartment of Medicine and Radiology, CV Imaging Program, Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Olivier ClercDepartment of Medicine and Radiology, CV Imaging Program, Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Mazen HannaDepartment of Cardiovascular Medicine, Amyloidosis Center, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Fredrick RubergSection of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Amyloidosis Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Martha GroganDepartment of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
Michele EmdinHealth Science Interdisciplinary Center, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy; Fondazione Toscana Gabriele Monasterio, Pisa, Italy.
Julian GillmoreNational Amyloidosis Centre, University College London, Royal Free Campus, Rowland Hill Street, London, United Kingdom.

Funding

SCAN-MP (Screening for Cardiac Amyloidosis with Nuclear imaging in Minority Populations) COVID-19 SuppplementR01HL139671 · NHLBI · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI MAURER, MATHEW S, RUBERG, FREDERICK LIEF · 2019 to 2023
$7.4M
Analysis of Lumbar Spine Stenosis Specimens for Identification of Transthyretin Cardiac AmyloidosisR01AG081582 · NIA · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI MATHEW S MAURER · 2023 to 2026
$2.8M
Personalized Exercise Training to Improve Functional Capacity in Transthyretin Cardiac AmyloidosisK23HL166686 · NHLBI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI Sarah AM Cuddy · 2023 to 2026
$756k
Elucidating Mechanisms of Cardiac Dysfunction Using Imaging and ProteomicsK99HL175107 · NHLBI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI CLERC, OLIVIER FLORIAN · 2024 to 2025
$214k
NHLBI NIH HHS K23 HL166686NHLBI NIH HHS K99 HL175107NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL139671NIA NIH HHS R01 AG081582
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cardiac amyloidosis represents a unique disease process characterized by amyloid fibril deposition within the myocardial extracellular space. Advances in multimodality cardiac imaging enable accurate diagnosis and facilitate prompt initiation of disease-modifying therapies. Furthermore, rapid advances in multimodality imaging have enriched understanding of the underlying pathogenesis, enhanced prognostication, and resulted in the development of imaging-based markers that reflect the amyloid burden, which is of increasing importance when assessing the response to treatment. Whereas conventional therapies have focused on reducing amyloid formation and subsequent stabilization of the cardiac disease process, novel agents are being developed to accelerate the immune-mediated removal of amyloid fibrils from the heart. In this context, the ability to track changes in the amyloid burden over time is of paramount importance. Although advanced imaging techniques have shown efficacy in tracking the treatment response, future research focused on improved precision through use of artificial intelligence may augment the detection of changes earlier in the course of treatment.

Indexed as

AmyloidosisCardiac Imaging TechniquesCardiomyopathiesMyocardiumHumansMultimodal ImagingPredictive Value of TestsPrognosisTreatment OutcomeCardiac amyloidosissystemic light-chain amyloidosistransthyretin amyloidosis

Identifiers

PMID39797879
PMCPMC12273739

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