Causes of Heart Failure1-7

  • Coronary Artery Disease1,2
  • Hypertension1
  • Arrhythmias1
  • Cardiomyopathy1,2
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Cardiac amyloidosis, a life-threatening, infiltrative type of cardiomyopathy, commonly causes heart failure and is characterized by extracellular deposition of misfolded protein, which forms amyloid fibrils that deposit in the heart3-6