Immunoglobulin light-chain (AL) amyloidosis with myasthenic symptoms and echocardiographic features of dilated cardiomyopathy

Internal Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 159-162

  Yoshita, Mitsuhiro ^a,b   Ishida, Chibo ^b   Yanase, Daisuke ^b   Yamada, Masahito ^b  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amyloidosis; Dilated cardiomyopathy; Myasthenia

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID PROTEIN; BENCE JONES PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IODINE 123; M PROTEIN; MEDRONATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; PROSTAGLANDIN E1 DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; AMYLOIDOSIS; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSPHAGIA; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FATALITY; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; IMMUNOELECTROPHORESIS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN AMYLOIDOSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIGHT CHAIN; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MONOCLONAL IMMUNOGLOBULINEMIA; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MYASTHENIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROTEINURIA; PTOSIS; SYSTOLIC HEART MURMUR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINALYSIS; WEAKNESS;

ALPROSTADIL; AMYLOIDOSIS; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS;

EID: 33644811916     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.45.1151     Document Type: Article

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