Unusual clinical manifestations of primary systemic AL amyloidosis: Are myasthenic symptoms and dilated cardiomyopathy caused by muscular or myocardial amyloid angiopathy?

Internal Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 123-124

  Ikeda, Shu Ichi ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amyloid; Amyloid angiopathy; Amyloid myopathy; Cardiac amyloidosis

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN; M PROTEIN; PROSTAGLANDIN E1 DERIVATIVE;

AMYLOIDOSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; FAMILIAL AMYLOID POLYNEUROPATHY; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN AMYLOIDOSIS; MACROGLOSSIA; MYASTHENIA; NERVE BLOCK; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PLASMA CELL DYSCRASIA; RESTRICTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; VASCULAR AMYLOIDOSIS;

AMYLOIDOSIS; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAINS; MUSCULAR DISEASES; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS;

EID: 33644811178     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.45.0139     Document Type: Editorial

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