Diagnosis of systemic amyloidosis and amyloidosis mediated cardiomyopathy by VATS pleural biopsy for chronic pleural effusion

Journal of Thoracic Disease

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Harvey Taylor, Jessica ^a   Zhang, Yanhong ^a   Kuderer, Valerie ^a   Cooke, David T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amyloidosis; Cardiac amyloidosis; Pleural effusion; Video assisted thoracic surgery

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; BORTEZOMIB; CONGO RED; DIURETIC AGENT; SERUM AMYLOID A;

AGED; AMYLOIDOSIS; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CASE REPORT; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DEATH; DYSPNEA; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDROTHORAX; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALAISE; MALE; PLASMA CELL; PLEURA BIOPSY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURODESIS; RESTRICTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY;

EID: 84881483740     PISSN: 20721439     EISSN: 20776624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3978/j.issn.2072-1439.2012.08.20     Document Type: Article

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