Embolic Infarction Associated with Cardiac Amyloidosis
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چکیده
Embolic cerebral infarction due to cardiac amyloidosis is rare. We report two patients with amyloidosis who developed cerebral infarcts. These embolic infarcts were probably related to cardiac involvement of amyloidosis, which was based on results of myocardial biopsy (Patient 1), and kidney biopsy and characteristic echocardiographic features including granular sparkling, restrictive cardiomyopathy and the presence of mural thrombus (Patient 2). Diffuse amyloid infiltration of the heart may have lead to impairment of myocardial function and subsequent mural thrombosis. Cardiomyopathy due to cardiac amyloidosis should be recognized as one of the causes of cardioembolic infarction.
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