Heart was the key to the diagnosis

Correspondence to Dr Khawaja Junaid Akhtar, Gastroenterology, Countess of Chester Hospital, Chester CH2 1UL, UK; khawajajunaid13@gmail.com We present the case of a man in his 70s who was referred to gastroenterology with several months’ history of offensive smelling loose stools and weight loss. Amyloidosis remains underdiagnosed although there are therapeutic options available, which can improve length and quality of life.2 As symptoms are often non-specific, GI amyloid is not high on a gastroenterologist’s list of differential diagnoses. Epidemiology of cardiac amyloidosis-associated heart failure hospitalizations among fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries in the United States.