The premortem recognition of systemic senile amyloidosis with cardiac involvement

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 395-400

  Kyle, Robert A ^a   Spittell, Peter C ^a   Gertz, Morie A ^a   Li, Chin Yang ^a   Edwards, William D ^a   Olson, Lyle J ^a   Thibodeau, Stephen N ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PREALBUMIN;

ADULT; AGED; AMYLOIDOSIS; ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMYLOIDOSIS; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREALBUMIN; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0030272240     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9343(96)00229-X     Document Type: Article

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