Abstract
Differential diagnosis of genetic causes of left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is crucial for disease-specific therapy. We aim to describe the prevalence of Cardiac Amyloidosis (CA) among patients ≥40 years with an initial diagnosis of HCM referred for second opinion to national cardiomyopathy centres. Consecutive patients aged ≥40 years referred with a tentative HCM diagnosis in the period 2014-2017 underwent clinical evaluation and genetic testing for HCM (including trans-thyretin-TTR). Patients with at least one red flag for CA underwent blood/urine tests, abdominal fat biopsy and/or bone-scintigraphy tracing and eventually ApoAI sequencing. Out of 343 patients (age 60 ± 13 years), 251 (73%) carried a likely/pathogenic gene variant, including 12 (3.5%) in the CA-associated genes TTR (n = 11) and ApoAI (n = 1). Furthermore, 6 (2%) patients had a mutation in GLA. Among the remaining, mutation-negative patients, 26 with ≥1 CA red-flag were investigated further: 3 AL-CA and 17 wild-type-TTR-CA were identified. Ultimately, 32(9%) patients were diagnosed with CA. Prevalence of CA increased with age: 1/75 (1%) at age 40-49, 2/86 (2%) at age 50-59, 8/84 (9%) at age 60-69, 13/61 (21%) at age 70-79, 8/31 (26%) at age ≥80 (p for trend ...Continue Reading
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