Clinical features of patients with immunoglobulin light chain amyloidosis (AL) with vascular-limited deposition in the kidney

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1097-1101

  Eirin, Alfonso ^a   Irazabal, Maria V ^a   Gertz, Morie A ^a   Dispenzieri, Angela ^a   Lacy, Martha Q ^a   Kumar, Shaji ^a   Sethi, Sanjeev ^a   Nasr, Samih H ^a   Cornell, Lynn D ^a   Fidler, Mary E ^a   Fervenza, Fernando C ^a   Leung, Nelson ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

AL; Amyloidosis; Proteinuria; Renal insufficiency; Vascular

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LAMBDA CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CREATININE CLEARANCE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEART FUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY AMYLOIDOSIS; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIGHT CHAIN DEPOSITION DISEASE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGED; AMYLOIDOSIS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAINS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY FUNCTION TESTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROTEINURIA; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 84861116139     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfr381     Document Type: Article

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