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Quick Medical Diagnosis & Treatment
Cardiomyopathy, Restrictive
Sections: Key Features, Clinical Findings, Diagnosis, Treatment.
Excerpt: | |  Right heart failure tends to dominate over left heart failure
Pulmonary hypertension is present Amyloidosis is the most common cause Echocardiography is key to diagnosis | | – Rapid early filling is present with diastolic dysfunction – Normal or near normal ejection fraction (EF) with normal size left ventricle (LV) |
MRI and cardiac catheterization are helpful Myocardial biopsy can confirm amyloid |
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