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,…

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…