Familial (ATTR) amyloidosis misdiagnosed as the primary (AL) variant: A case report

Cases Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Dattilo, Philip B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARVEDILOL; DIGOXIN; FOSINOPRIL; FUROSEMIDE; METOPROLOL;

ABDOMINAL FAT ASPIRATION BIOPSY; ABNORMAL RESPIRATORY SOUND; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FAMILIAL AMYLOIDOSIS; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HUMAN; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LABORATORY TEST; LEG EDEMA; LIGHT CHAIN; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; SYSTOLIC HEART MURMUR; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 77953411611     PISSN: 17571626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1757-1626-2-9295     Document Type: Article

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