Myocardial adrenergic denervation in patients with primary (AL) amyloidosis

Amyloid

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 117-120

  Lekakis, John ^a,c   Dimopoulos, Meletios A ^a   Prassopoulos, Vassilios ^b   Mavrikakis, Myron ^a   Gerali, Sofia ^b   Sifakis, Nicos ^b   Athanassoulis, Theodoros ^b   Stamatelopoulos, Stamatios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

AL amyloidosis; MIBG

Indexed keywords

(3 IODOBENZYL)GUANIDINE; AMYLOID; IODINE 123; THALLIUM 201;

ADRENERGIC NERVE; ADULT; AGED; AMYLOIDOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DENERVATION; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART DENERVATION; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION DISTURBANCE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTIGRAPHY;

EID: 0042703599     PISSN: 13506129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/13506120309041733     Document Type: Article

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