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Diagnosis of cardiac amyloidosis in patients undergoing catheter ablation for atrial arrhythmias

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    Jackson J. Liang

  2. Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    David S. Frankel, Janice Pieretti, Charuhas Deshpande & Saman Nazarian

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Steady state free precession cine horizontal long axis cardiac image from Patient #2 showing left ventricular hypertrophy, mildly reduced systolic function, and biatrial enlargement. (MOV 872 kb)

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Inversion time scout scan from Patient #3 showing increased myocardial native T1 values and difficulty in nulling of the myocardium, suggestive of cardiac amyloidosis. (MOV 1141 kb)

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Liang, J.J., Frankel, D.S., Pieretti, J. et al. Diagnosis of cardiac amyloidosis in patients undergoing catheter ablation for atrial arrhythmias. J Interv Card Electrophysiol 57, 489–490 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10840-020-00719-9

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