Clinical symptomatic de novo systemic transthyretin amyloidosis 9 years after domino liver transplantation

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 109-

  Barreiros, Ana Paula ^a   Geber, Christian ^a   Birklein, Frank ^a   Galle, Peter R ^a   Otto, Gerd ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN INHIBITOR; PREALBUMIN;

AGED; BURNING SENSATION; CACHEXIA; CASE REPORT; CHEMOEMBOLIZATION; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DYSESTHESIA; FAMILIAL AMYLOID POLYNEUROPATHY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LETTER; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM BIOPSY; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION;

AGED; AMYLOID NEUROPATHIES, FAMILIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PREALBUMIN;

EID: 73949136095     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.21928     Document Type: Letter

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