FEATURES AND PROGNOSIS OF EXERTIONAL SYNCOPE IN LIGHT-CHAIN ASSOCIATED AL CARDIAC AMYLOIDOSIS

Authors
CHAMARTHI B DUBREY SW CHA KR SKINNER M FALK RH
Citation
B. Chamarthi et al., FEATURES AND PROGNOSIS OF EXERTIONAL SYNCOPE IN LIGHT-CHAIN ASSOCIATED AL CARDIAC AMYLOIDOSIS, The American journal of cardiology, 80(9), 1997, pp. 1242
Citations number
5
Categorie Soggetti
Cardiac & Cardiovascular System
Journal title
The American journal of cardiology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00029149
Volume
80
Issue
9
Year of publication
1997
Database
ISI
SICI code
0002-9149(1997)80:9<1242:FAPOES>2.0.ZU;2-B
Abstract
Syncope is common in AL amyloid heart disease and in almost 1/3 of our patients who experienced syncope, it was precipitated by physiologic stress. Stress-precipitated syncope was associated with a poor prognos is in such patients, both in terms of their median survival of 2 month s and was frequently a precursor of sudden cardiac death.