Jayshree Joshi

TL;DR: In cardiac amyloidosis, CMR shows a characteristic pattern of global subendocardial late enhancement coupled with abnormal myocardial and blood-pool gadolinium kinetics and may prove to have value in diagnosis and treatment follow-up.

TL;DR: Two-dimensional echocardiographic studies were prospectively performed in 93 patients with systemic lupus erythematosus to discover the incidence and spectrum of cardiac abnormalities and to relate these findings to the presence of high levels of anticardiolipin antibodies.

TL;DR: It is concluded that atherosclerotic lesions in the thoracic aorta can readily be identified with transesophageal echocardiographic studies, and may be used serially to investigate whether dietary or pharmacologic maneuvers, or both, can shrink established atheosclerotic plaques in the abdomen.

TL;DR: Heart transplantation followed by SCT is feasible in selected patients with cardiac AL amyloidosis and may confer substantial survival benefit.

TL;DR: While echocardiography aids in the specificity of HC diagnosis, the ECG, within the context of a family with a proven case of HC, is a more sensitive marker of the disease and is therefore both a cost-effective and useful tool for screening those to proceed to echOCardiography.