Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is a frequent clinical syndrome, and it has accounted for 40% to 50% of heart failure hospitalizations in several reports published in the literature., It is a distinctly heterogeneous syndrome, and, with this diversity of scenarios, patients with a restrictive cardiomyopathy phenotype have been increasingly identified, especially elderly patients with cardiac amyloidosis. Restrictive cardiomyopathies are diseases of the heart muscle that can arise due to various etiologies, including genetic abnormalities, infiltrative diseases, and […]

Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is the most common form of heart failure (HF) in patients older than 65 years of age, accounting for more than 50% of all cases of HF.1 However, despite more than 30 years of research on this intriguing and challenging heart disease, there is a lack of consensus on the diagnostic approach and a wide variation in guidelines’ criteria.2,3 This lack of uniformity in the definition and the difficult diagnosis are partly due […]