Case Report

Catastrophic Cardiac Amyloidosis

Figure 2

Transthoracic echocardiography in short-axis view (a) demonstrating severe concentric left ventricular wall thickening with “sparkling” appearance in a patient with cardiac amyloidosis. Tissue Doppler imaging (b) illustrating reduced systolic and early diastolic velocities at septal mitral annulus in a patient with cardiac amyloidosis.
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