Prevalence of Cardiac Amyloidosis in Patients Referred for Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 463-464

  Scully, Paul R ^a   Treibel, Thomas A ^a   Fontana, Marianna ^a   Lloyd, Guy ^a   Mullen, Michael ^a   Pugliese, Francesca ^a   Hartman, Neil ^a   Hawkins, Philip N ^a   Menezes, Leon J ^a   Moon, James C ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; ATTR AMYLOIDOSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CLINICAL OUTCOME; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE BURDEN; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEART AMYLOIDOSIS; HEART FAILURE WITH PRESERVED EJECTION FRACTION; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE IMPLANTATION; AMYLOIDOSIS; HEART DISEASE; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMYLOIDOSIS; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; PREVALENCE; TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE REPLACEMENT;

EID: 85044780475     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: 15583597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2017.11.037     Document Type: Letter

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