Liver transplantation as rescue treatment in a patient with primary AL kappa amyloidosis

Transplant International

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 92-97

  Nowak, Grzegorz ^a   Westermark, Per ^b   Wernerson, Annika ^a   Herlenius, Gustaf ^a   Sletten, Knut ^c   Ericzon, Bo Göran ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Liver transplantation; Primary amyloidosis; Splenic rupture

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; INSULIN;

ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; ADULT; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; AMYLOIDOSIS; APPETITE DISORDER; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BRAIN DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CHOLESTASIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE COURSE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEPATOMEGALY; HISTOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPONATREMIA; JAUNDICE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; OSTEOPOROSIS; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SPLEEN RUPTURE; SYMPTOM; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 0034125125     PISSN: 09340874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-2277.2000.tb01047.x     Document Type: Article

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