Left atrial kinetic energy in AL amyloidosis: Can it detect early dysfunction?

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 244-246

  Murphy, Laura ^a   Falk, Rodney H ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOIDOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENERGY; HEART ATRIUM FUNCTION; HEART INDEX; HEART LEFT ATRIUM PRESSURE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

AMYLOIDOSIS; ATRIAL FUNCTION, LEFT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; STROKE VOLUME;

EID: 0034086451     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(00)00870-5     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. Falk R.H., Comenzo R.L., Skinner M. The systemic amyloidoses. N Engl J Med. 337:1997;898-909.
2. Dubrey S.W., Cha K., Anderson J., Chamarthi B., Reisinger J., Skinner M., Falk R.H. The clinical features of immunoglobulin light-chain (AL) amyloidosis with heart involvement. Q J Med. 91:1998;141-157.
3. Klein A.L., Cohen G.I. Doppler echocardiographic assessment of constrictive pericarditis, cardiac amyloidosis, and cardiac tamponade. Cleve Clin J Med. 59:1992;278-290.
4. Dubrey S., Pollak A., Skinner M., Falk R.H. Atrial thrombi occurring during sinus rhythm in cardiac amyloidosis evidence for atrial electromechanical dissociation. Br Heart J. 74:1995;541-544.
5. Stefanadis C., Dernellis J., Stratos C., Tsiamis E., Tsioufis C., Toutouzas K., Vlachopoulos C., Pitsavos C., Toutouzas P. Assessment of left atrial pressure-area relation in man using retrograde left atrial catheterization and echocardiographic automatic boundary detection effect of dobutamine. J Am Coll Cardiol. 31:1998;426-463.
6. Hoit B.D., Shao Y., Gabel M., Welsh R.A. In vivo assessment of left atrial contractile performance in normal and pathological conditions using a time-varying elastance model. Circulation. 89:1994;1829-1838.
7. Stefanadis C., Dernelis J., Lambrou S., Toutouzas P. Left atrial energy in normal subjects, in patients with symptomatic mitral stenosis, and in patients with advanced heart failure. Am J Cardiol. 82:1998;1220-1223.
8. Plehn J.F., Southworth J., Cornwell G.G. Brief report: atrial systolic failure in primary amyloidosis N Engl J Med. 327:1992;1570-1573.