Echocardiography and Amyloidosis Resources

The complexities of using echocardiography in the diagnosis of cardiac amyloidosis are numerous. ASE is pleased to provide these educational resources on the early diagnosis, treatment, and management of cardiac amyloidosis. There is also an increasing appreciation that this disease is more prevalent than previously thought, and there are newer therapies for the treatment which are important to consider in patient care.

FREE Poster: Echocardiography in Cardiac Amyloidosis

This new poster focuses on the common echocardiographic imaging findings of cardiac amyloidosis (CA), and highlights red flags that should raise suspicion for the diagnosis. It offers practical tips for image acquisition and interpretation and outlines recommendations for standard reporting of an echocardiogram in a patient with CA. Download it here.

This piece was created from an article “Practical Points for Echocardiography in Cardiac Amyloidosis” that was published in the Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography.

Produced in collaboration with Pfizer

Guidelines

ASNC/AHA/ASE/EANM/HFSA/ISA/SCMR/SNMMI Expert Consensus Recommendations for Multimodality Imaging in Cardiac Amyloidosis: Part 1 of 2—Evidence Base and Standardized Methods of Imaging

Articles

Articles published on amyloidosis in the Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography (JASE).

Read Practical Points for Echocardiography in Cardiac Amyloidosis in the September 2022 issue of JASE.

Cases

Cases on amyloidosis published in CASE, ASE’s online case reports journal.