Eriku Yamada, Tomoyuki Umemoto, Towako Taguchi, Iichiroh Onishi, Akiko Yamamoto, Kazuya Tsukamoto, Takuya Ibara, Toru Sasaki, Hidetoshi Kaburagi, Yasuhiro Maejima, Tetsuo Sasano, Kenichi Ohashi, Toshitaka Yoshii, Akimoto Nimura, Koji Fujita
BACKGROUND: Cardiac amyloidosis is a fatal disease of severe heart failure caused by the accumulation of amyloid in the myocardium. This disease is often advanced by the time cardiac symptoms appear; therefore, early detection and treatment are critical for a good prognosis. Recently, it has been suggested that cardiac amyloidosis is implicated in several orthopedic diseases, including carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS), which is often reported to precede cardiac dysfunction. Shoulder disease has also been suggested to be associated with cardiac amyloidosis; however, there have been no reports investigating the rate of amyloid deposition in shoulder specimens and the simultaneous prevalence of cardiac amyloidosis...
March 2024: JSES international