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Cardiac Amyloidosis and its New Clinical Phenotype: Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction.
Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia - 1 Jul 2017
Mesquita Evandro Tinoco, Jorge Antonio José Lagoeiro, Souza Celso Vale, Andrade Thais Ribeiro de
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Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is now an emerging cardiovascular epidemic, being identified as the main phenotype observed in clinical practice. It is more associated with female gender, advanced age and comorbidities such as hypertension, diabetes, obesity and chronic kidney disease. Amyloidosis is a clinical disorder characterized by the deposition of aggregates of insoluble fibrils...
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