Recurrent cardiac amyloidosis following previous heart transplantation

Cardiovascular Pathology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Luk, Adriana ^a   Ahn, Eric ^b   Lee, Andrew ^b   Ross, Heather J ^a   Butany, Jagdish ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cardiac amyloidosis; Heart transplantation

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; BENCE JONES PROTEIN; CYCLOSPORIN A; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIBODY; MELPHALAN; PREDNISONE; AMYLOID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN;

ADULT; ALBUMINURIA; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FAMILIAL AMYLOIDOSIS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEART AMYLOIDOSIS; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INVASIVE ASPERGILLOSIS; LIGHT CHAIN; MALE; ORTHOTOPIC TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION; RECURRENT DISEASE; AMYLOIDOSIS, FAMILIAL; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; FATALITY; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TIME; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ADULT; AMYLOID; AMYLOIDOSIS, FAMILIAL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAINS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECURRENCE; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS;

EID: 77956899173     PISSN: 10548807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carpath.2009.06.009     Document Type: Article

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