Dr Michelle Kittleson (Cedars-Sinai California Heart Center, US) provides an overview of the 2023 ACC Expert Consensus Decision Pathway on Comprehensive Multidisciplinary Care for the Patient with Cardiac Amyloidosis.

Dr Kittleson highlights the unmet needs in managing patients with cardiac amyloidosis and stresses the importance of a multidisciplinary approach involving cardiologists, haematologists, and other specialists. The key take-home messages of the consensus include early diagnosis, comprehensive assessment, and individualized management. Dr Kittleson also discusses the challenges and opportunities in the management of cardiac amyloidosis.

Questions

1.    What are some of the unmet needs in the management of patients with cardiac amyloidosis?
2.    What is the role of the cardiologist and what other specialist should be involved?
3.    What are the key-take home messages of this 2023 ACC Expert Consensus?
4.    What are some of the challenges and opportunities in the management of cardiac amyloidosis today?

Recorded remotely from Los Angeles, 2023. 

Interviewer: Mirjam Boros

Video Production: Oliver Miles