A clinical, echocardiographic and genetic characterization of a Danish family with familial amyloid transthyretin methione III linked cardiomyopathy;Hereditær amyloid kardiomyopati relateret til en mutation på plads nr. 111 i transthyretinproteinet en klinisk, genetisk og ekkokardiografisk undersøgelse af en afficeret Dansk familie

Ugeskrift for Laeger

Volumn 161, Issue 36, 1999, Pages 4995-4999

  Svendsen, Ida Hastrup ^a,b   Steensgaard Hansen, Frank ^a   Nordvåg, Bjørn Yngvar ^a  

^a H:S Rigshuspitalet   (Norway)

^b BISPEBJERG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHIONINE; PREALBUMIN;

ADOLESCENT; AMYLOIDOSIS; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CHILD; DENMARK; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; AMYLOIDOSIS; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; CHILD; DENMARK; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; METHIONINE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; PREALBUMIN;

EID: 0033530033     PISSN: 00415782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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