Evaluation of patients with cardiac amyloidosis using echocardiography, ECG and right heart catheterization

Amyloid

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 27-33

  Granstam, Sven Olof ^a   Rosengren, Sara ^b   Vedin, Ola ^c   Kero, Tanja ^a   Sörensen, Jens ^a   Carlson, Kristina ^b   Flachskampf, Frank A ^a   Wikström, Gerhard ^c  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Department of Medical Sciences Haematology ^*  (Sweden)

^c Department of Medical Sciences Cardiology   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cardiac amyloidosis; Diastolic function; Echocardiography; Heart failure; Hypertrophy and melphalan; Right heart catheterization

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; ERYTHROPOIETIN; MELPHALAN; PREALBUMIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART AMYLOIDOSIS; HEART ATRIUM ENLARGEMENT; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING PRESSURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART OUTPUT; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG WEDGE PRESSURE; MALE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMYLOID NEUROPATHIES, FAMILIAL; CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION; CARDIOMEGALY; DEXAMETHASONE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; MELPHALAN; MIDDLE AGED; NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE, BRAIN; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PULMONARY WEDGE PRESSURE; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84874139913     PISSN: 13506129     EISSN: 17442818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/13506129.2012.761967     Document Type: Article

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