Vitreous Amyloidosis in Two Sisters as the Indication of Transthyretin-Related Familial Form of Systemic Amyloidosis Among Liver Transplantation Candidates

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 3085-3087

  Niemczyk, R ^a   Brydak Godowska, J ^a   Kecik, D ^a   Wagner, T ^b   Lewandowski, P ^a   Kecik, M ^a   Zygier, D ^a   Oldakowska Jedynak U ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF RHEUMATOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PREALBUMIN;

ADULT; AMYLOID NEUROPATHY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISTAL PARESTHESIA; ECHOOCULOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FAMILIAL AMYLOIDOSIS; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY DISORDER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LIMB WEAKNESS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALABSORPTION; MOTOR NEUROPATHY; MUSCLE ATROPHY; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NEUROPATHY; SYNCOPE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE INCONTINENCE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISORDER; VITRECTOMY; VITREOUS AMYLOIDOSIS; VITREOUS DISEASE;

ADULT; AMYLOID NEUROPATHIES, FAMILIAL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MUTATION; PREALBUMIN; SIBLINGS; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 70350438966     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2009.07.089     Document Type: Article

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