Cardiovascular Manifestations

When Manuel Rivera-Alsina, MD, first started feeling tired and short of breath, he blamed it on getting older. But when Manual, a maternal fetal medicine doctor,…

Leslie T. Cooper, Jr., M.D., is a general cardiologist and the chair of the Mayo Clinic Enterprise Department of Cardiovascular Medicine as well as chair of the…

This report discusses an unusual case of cardiac amyloidosis. We report a patient who presented with unexplained ascites on a background of stable hypertension and…

In some patients with amyloidosis there is a build-up of amyloid deposits in the heart muscle. This may cause no symptoms at all if there is just a small amount of…