To the editor: Two types of amyloid in a single heart

Blood

Volumn 124, Issue 19, 2014, Pages 3025-3027

  Mahmood, Shameem ^a   Gilbertson, Janet A ^a   Rendell, Nigel ^a   Whelan, Carol J ^a   Lachmann, Helen J ^a   Wechalekar, Ashutosh D ^a   Hawkins, Philip N ^a   Gillmore, Julian D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO TERMINAL PRO BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; AMYLOID; BUTEDRONATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; CD27 ANTIGEN; CD56 ANTIGEN; PREALBUMIN;

AGED; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CARDIAC TRANSTHYRETIN AMYLOIDOSIS; CASE REPORT; DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; GENE SEQUENCE; HEART AMYLOIDOSIS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; LASER MICRODISSECTION; LETTER; MALE; NEW YORK HEART ASSOCIATION CLASS; PLASMA CELL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEOMICS; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; VERY ELDERLY; WILD TYPE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMYLOIDOSIS; GENETICS; HEART DISEASE; HEART MUSCLE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PATHOLOGY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMYLOID; AMYLOIDOSIS; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYOCARDIUM;

EID: 84909619375     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: 15280020     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2014-06-580720     Document Type: Letter

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