Abdominal Fat Biopsy for the Diagnosis of Cardiac Amyloidosis

JACC Case Rep. 2020 Jul 15;2(8):1182-1185. doi: 10.1016/j.jaccas.2020.05.062. eCollection 2020 Jul.

Authors

Alberto Aimo^{1

2}, Michele Emdin^{2

3}, Veronica Musetti², Angela Pucci⁴, Giuseppe Vergaro^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Cardiology Division, University Hospital of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
² Institute of Life Sciences, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy.
³ Cardiology Division, Fondazione Toscana Gabriele Monasterio, Pisa, Italy.
⁴ Department of Histopathology, University Hospital, Pisa, Italy.

No abstract available

Keywords: abdominal fat biopsy; amyloidosis; histology; immunoglobulin light chain amyloidosis; transthyretin amyloidosis.

Publication types

Editorial