Cardiac amyloidosis mimicking severe aortic valve stenosis – a case report demonstrating diagnostic pitfalls and role of dobutamine stress echocardiography

Background Aortic valve stenosis is a common finding diagnosed with high sensitivity in transthoracic echocardiography, but the examiner often finds himself confronted with uncertain results in patients with moderate pressure gradients and concomitant systolic heart failure. While patients with true...
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Autor*in:

Salinger, Tim [verfasserIn]

Hu, Kai

Liu, Dan

Herrmann, Sebastian

Lorenz, Kristina

Ertl, Georg

Nordbeck, Peter

Format:

E-Artikel

Sprache:

Englisch

Erschienen:

2017

Schlagwörter:

Aortic valve stenosis (AS)

Cardiac amyloidosis

Dobutamine stress echocardiography

Low-gradient AS

Pseudo-severe AS

Case report

Anmerkung:

© The Author(s). 2017

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Enthalten in: BMC cardiovascular disorders - London : BioMed Central, 2001, 17(2017), 1 vom: 22. März

Übergeordnetes Werk:

volume:17 ; year:2017 ; number:1 ; day:22 ; month:03

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DOI / URN:

10.1186/s12872-017-0519-0

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SPR027343294

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