Familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy: Long-term follow-up of abdominal fat tissue aspirate in patients with and without liver transplantation

Amyloid

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 221-226

  Haagsma, Elizabeth B ^a   Van Gameren, Ingrid I ^a   Bijzet, Johan ^a   Posthumus, Marcel D ^a   Hazenberg, Bouke P C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Abdominal fat aspirate; Inherited amyloidosis; Liver transplantation; Transthyretin

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE;

ABDOMINAL FAT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILIAL AMYLOID POLYNEUROPATHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ABDOMINAL FAT; ADULT; AGED; AMYLOID; AMYLOID NEUROPATHIES, FAMILIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIUM;

EID: 34547875759     PISSN: 13506129     EISSN: 17442818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506120701461368     Document Type: Article

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