Severe heart failure from light chain cardiomyopathy (cardiac amyloidosis)

Zeitschrift fur Kardiologie

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 90-95

  Hofer, J F ^a   Wimmer, G ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Heart failure; Primary amyloidosis

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

AGED; AMYLOIDOSIS; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART AMYLOIDOSIS; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY TEST; RECTUM MUCOSA; TREATMENT PLANNING;

AGED; AMYLOIDOSIS; BIOPSY; CARDIOMEGALY; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAINS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; MYOCARDIUM; PLEURAL EFFUSION;

EID: 0037272835     PISSN: 03005860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00392-003-0875-x     Document Type: Article

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