Regression of Cardiac Amyloid After Autologous Stem-cell Transplantation

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 746-748

  Blair, John E A ^a   Zeigler, Sanford M ^b   Mehta, Jayesh ^a   Singhal, Seema ^a   Cotts, William ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN; MELPHALAN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOLOGOUS HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FLUID BALANCE; HEART AMYLOIDOSIS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HUMAN; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ELECTROPHORESIS; REMISSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINALYSIS;

AMYLOID; AMYLOIDOSIS; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIUM; REMISSION INDUCTION; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67649085910     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2008.11.918     Document Type: Article

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