A clinical, echocardiographic and genetic characterization of a Danish kindred with familial amyloid transthyretin methionine 111 linked cardiomyopathy

European Heart Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 782-789

  Hastrup Svendsen, I ^a   Steensgaard Hansen, F ^b   Nordvag B Y ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Amyloid; Cardiomyopathy; Echocardiography; Hereditary; Transthyretin

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; METHIONINE; PREALBUMIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; DENMARK; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HETEROZYGOTE; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HUMAN; INFANT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; SYMPTOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMYLOIDOSIS; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; CARDIOMYOPATHY, RESTRICTIVE; CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; CHILD; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; METHIONINE; MIDDLE AGED; PEDIGREE; PREALBUMIN; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0032080585     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/euhj.1997.0841     Document Type: Article

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