Relation of clinical, echocardiographic and electrocardiographic features of cardiac amyloidosis to the presence of the transthyretin V122I allele in older African-American men

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 440-444

  Jacobson, Daniel ^a   Tagoe, Clement ^b   Schwartzbard, Arthur ^c   Shah, Alan ^d   Koziol, James ^e   Buxbaum, Joel ^e  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; PREALBUMIN;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ETHNICITY; GENETIC RISK; HEART AMYLOIDOSIS; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALLELES; AMYLOIDOSIS, FAMILIAL; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HEART FAILURE; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREALBUMIN; VETERANS;

EID: 79960366330     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: 18791913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2011.03.069     Document Type: Article

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