Amyloid load in fat tissue reflects disease severity and predicts survival in amyloidosis

Arthritis Care and Research

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 296-301

  Van Gameren, Ingrid I ^a   Hazenberg, Bouke P C ^a   Bijzet, Johan ^a   Haagsma, Elizabeth B ^a   Vellenga, Edo ^a   Posthumus, Marcel D ^a   Jager, Pieter L ^b   Van Rijswijk, Martin H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID;

ABDOMINAL FAT; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AMYLOIDOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

ABDOMINAL FAT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMYLOIDOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SERUM AMYLOID P-COMPONENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77649194366     PISSN: 21514658     EISSN: 15290131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acr.20101     Document Type: Article

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