Cardiac Amyloidosis. A Disease with Many Faces and Different Prognoses;Amilóidose Cardíaca. Uma Doença de Muitas Faces e Diferentes Prognósticos

Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 89-93

  Pereira Barretto, Antonio Carlos ^a   Precoma, Dalton ^a   Serro Azul, João Batista ^a   Wajngarten, Mauricio ^a   Pierri, Humberto ^a   Pivotto, Ligia ^a   Nussbacher, Amit ^a   Eluf Gebara, Otavio Celso ^a   Bellotti, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cardiac amyloidosis; Complete atrioventricular block; Heart failure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMYLOIDOSIS; ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DYSPNEA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART BLOCK; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMYLOIDOSIS; DYSPNEA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART BLOCK; HEART DISEASES; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 0031197051     PISSN: 0066782X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0066-782x1997000800003     Document Type: Article

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