I read the paper by Kotecha et al. with great interest. Certainly, the authors conducted a very valuable and exciting study for which 286 patients were recruited, including 100 with systemic light-chain amyloidosis and 163 with cardiac transthyretin amyloidosis. The findings in this study by histology and cardiovascular magnetic resonance T2 mapping suggest that myocardial edema is a mechanism additional to amyloid infiltration in contributing to prognosis in amyloidosis
Funding
Dr. Cao has received funding from the John and Lucille van Geest Foundation and the National Institute for Health Research Leicester Biomedical Research Centre.
History
Citation
J Am Coll Cardiol, 2018, 72 (15), pp. 1872 – 81
Author affiliation
/Organisation/COLLEGE OF LIFE SCIENCES/School of Medicine/Department of Cardiovascular Sciences
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