Objectives To define whether the high sensitivity cardiac troponin T (hs-cTnT) assay in patients with immunoglobulin light chain amyloidosis (AL) improves risk prediction …
MS Mandell, MY Tsou - Journal of the Chinese Medical …, 2008 - journals.lww.com
Most patients with advanced liver disease have a normal or even supernormal ejection fraction judged by echocardiogra-phy. Thus, physicians previously assumed that cardiac …
AB Collins, RN Smith, JR Stone - Cardiovascular Pathology, 2009 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: At least 12 distinct forms of amyloidosis are known to involve the heart or great vessels. Patient treatment regimens require proper subtyping of amyloid deposits in …
M Roth, J Aitsebaomo, MS Willis - Laboratory Medicine, 2007 - academic.oup.com
History of Present Illness Symptoms began about 2 years ago but worsened significantly in the past 6 months. Proton pump inhibitor therapy did not alleviate the burning, initially …