Persistent troponin elevation in a patient with cardiac amyloidosis

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Kraemer, Bjoern F ^a   Seizer, Peter ^a   Geisler, Tobias ^a   Klingel, Karin ^a   Kandolf, Reinhard ^a   Lindemann, Stephan ^a   Gawaz, Meinrad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cardiac amyloidosis; Heart failure; Syncope; Troponin

Indexed keywords

PREALBUMIN; TROPONIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART AMYLOIDOSIS; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; STENT; THORAX PAIN;

AGED; AMYLOIDOSIS; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BIOPSY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART DISEASES; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; MYOCARDIUM; PREALBUMIN; STENTS; SYNCOPE; TROPONIN; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 73249118264     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.20333     Document Type: Article

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