Expert Center for cardiac amyloidosis: reality and perspectives

Svetlana N. Nasonova; Насонова Светлана Николаевна; Igor V. Zhirov; Жиров Игорь Витальевич; Anastasiya A. Shoshina; Шошина Анастасия Александровна; Yulia F. Osmolovskaya; Осмоловская Юлия Фаильевна; Alexey A. Ansheles; Аншелес Алексей Аркадьевич; Olga Ya. Tchaikovskaya; Чайковская Ольга Ярославна; Svetlana V. Dobrovolskaya; Добровольская Светлана Валерьевна; Vladimir B. Sergienko; Сергиенко Владимир Борисович; Marina A. Saidova; Саидова Марина Абдулатиповна; Sergey N. Tereshchenko; Терещенко Сергей Николаевич; Sergey A. Boytsov; Бойцов Сергей Анатольевич

doi:10.26442/00403660.2024.04.202677

Expert Center for cardiac amyloidosis: reality and perspectives

Authors: Nasonova S.N.¹, Zhirov I.V.¹, Shoshina A.A.¹, Osmolovskaya Y.F.¹, Ansheles A.A.¹, Tchaikovskaya O.Y.¹, Dobrovolskaya S.V.¹, Sergienko V.B.¹, Saidova M.A.¹, Tereshchenko S.N.¹, Boytsov S.A.¹
Affiliations:
1. Chazov National Medical Research Center of Cardiology
Issue: Vol 96, No 4 (2024)
Pages: 321-329
Section: Editorial
URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/0040-3660/article/view/255108
DOI: https://doi.org/10.26442/00403660.2024.04.202677
ID: 255108

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Aim. To evaluate the features of diagnosis of amyloid cardiomyopathy (ACMP), differential diagnosis of different types of amyloidosis and its clinical manifestations.

Materials and methods. Were analyzed 150 cases of patients who consulted at the Expert Center for Amyloidosis with suspicion of the presence of ACMP. 63 patients were diagnosed with ACMP: 25 (39.7%) – women, 38 (60.3%) – men, with an average age of 64.1±1.5. 36 (57.1%) patients had AL-amyloidosis (immunoglobulin amyloid light-chain amyloidosis), 25 (39.7%) – ATTR-amyloidosis (transthyretin amyloidosis), 2 (3.2%) – AA-amyloidosis with heart failure (reactive systemic amyloidosis caused by hypersecretion of á-globulin). The analysis of clinical manifestations depending on the type of amyloidosis, data of laboratory and instrumental methods of diagnosis is carried out.

Results. In most cases, 53 (84.1%) patients, amyloidosis manifested as signs of heart failure. Among cardiac manifestations, shortness of breath (95.2%), general weakness (93.7%), lower limb edema (76.2%) were the most common. To confirm the diagnosis, despite the high accuracy of the speckle-tracking echocardiography and magnetic resonance imaging of the heart with gadolinium, in rare cases a biopsy is required (e.g. there is a combination of clinical signs of several types of amyloidosis). Biopsy of the affected organ was performed in 31 (49.2%) patients. The strategy for further pathogenetic treatment depends on the determination of the type of amyloidosis. Free light chains of immunoglobulins were detected in 57.1% of cases, which allowed diagnosis of AL-amyloidosis. In 17 (38.6%) patients myocardial scintigraphy with ^99mTc-pyrophosphate showed signs of ATTR-amyloidosis, which with a negative result of immunochemical studies allows non-invasive diagnosis of it.

Conclusion. ACMP is a disease with an extremely adverse prognosis. Raising the awareness of specialists about ACMP is an important goal. With timely diagnosis, pathogenetic therapy can be started early, which will improve the quality of life and prognosis of patients with ACMP.

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amyloid cardiomyopathy, transthyretin amyloidosis, immunoglobulin amyloid light-chain amyloidosis, echocardiography, myocardial scintigraphy