Cardiac amyloidosis in a heart transplant patient - A case report and retrospective analysis of amyloidosis evolution

Intractable and Rare Diseases Research

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 60-64

  Kintsler, Svetlana ^a   Jäkel, Jörg ^a   Brandenburg, Vincent ^a   Kersten, Katrin ^a   Knuechel, Ruth ^a   Röcken, Christoph ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

ATTR amyloid; cardiac biopsy; heart transplantation; senile systemic amyloidosis

Indexed keywords

METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREALBUMIN;

AGED; ANKLE EDEMA; ARTICLE; BARE METAL STENTING; CARDIAC ALLOGRAFT VASCULOPATHY; CARDIAC GRAFT REJECTION; CASE REPORT; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHORESIS; HEART AMYLOIDOSIS; HEART DISEASE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL THICKENING; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART PALPITATION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LEFT VENTRICULAR DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; LUNG CONGESTION; MALE; MONOCLONAL IMMUNOGLOBULINEMIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 85007090716     PISSN: 21863644     EISSN: 2186361X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5582/irdr.2014.01036     Document Type: Article

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