Candida Cristina Quarta, Esther Gonzalez-Lopez, Janet A Gilbertson, Nichola Botcher, Dorota Rowczenio, Aviva Petrie, Tamer Rezk, Taryn Youngstein, Shameem Mahmood, Sajitha Sachchithanantham, Helen J Lachmann, Marianna Fontana, Carol J Whelan, Ashutosh D Wechalekar, Philip N Hawkins, Julian D Gillmore
AIMS: Congo red staining of an endomyocardial biopsy is the diagnostic gold-standard in suspected cardiac amyloidosis (CA), but the procedure is associated with the risk, albeit small, of serious complications, and delay in diagnosis due to the requirement for technical expertise. In contrast, abdominal fat pad fine needle aspiration (FPFNA) is a simple, safe and well-established procedure in systemic amyloidosis, but its diagnostic sensitivity in patients with suspected CA remains unclear...
June 21, 2017: European Heart Journal