When to Suspect Infiltrative or Storage Cardiomyopathy in Patients with HFpEF?

Abstract

Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is a frequent clinical syndrome, and it has accounted for 40% to 50% of heart failure hospitalizations in several reports published in the literature., It is a distinctly heterogeneous syndrome, and, with this diversity of scenarios, patients with a restrictive cardiomyopathy phenotype have been increasingly identified, especially elderly patients with cardiac amyloidosis. Restrictive cardiomyopathies are diseases of the heart muscle that can arise due to various etiologies, including genetic abnormalities, infiltrative diseases, and [...]