Light-chain cardiac amyloidosis: strategies to promote early diagnosis and cardiac response

M Grogan, A Dispenzieri, MA Gertz - Heart, 2017 - heart.bmj.com
Amyloid light chain (AL) amyloidosis is a systemic disease characterised by the aggregation
of misfolded immunoglobulin light chain (LC), predominantly in the heart and kidneys …

High sensitivity cardiac troponin T in patients with immunoglobulin light chain amyloidosis

A Dispenzieri, MA Gertz, SK Kumar, MQ Lacy, RA Kyle… - Heart, 2014 - heart.bmj.com
Objectives To define whether the high sensitivity cardiac troponin T (hs-cTnT) assay in
patients with immunoglobulin light chain amyloidosis (AL) improves risk prediction …

Cardiovascular dysfunction in patients with end-stage liver disease

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 …

Classification of amyloid deposits in diagnostic cardiac specimens by immunofluorescence

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 …

Clinical-morphological characteristics of organs affections in periodic disease

ԳԱ Եգանյան, ՍՎ Համբարձումյան… - Медицинская наука …, 2011 - elibrary.ru
Периодическая болезнь (ПБ)–наследственное заболевание, которое проявляется
лихорадкой и кратковременными серозитами: перитонитом, плевритом, перикардитом …

冠動脈CT アンギオにより冠動脈狭窄が認められた家族性アミロイドーシスの1 例

野本愼一, 住京子, 藤島真須美 - 心臓, 2010 - jstage.jst.go.jp
抄録 症例は 66 歳, 男性. 61 歳ごろから食欲不振および下痢と便秘を繰り返した. 65
歳ごろから膀胱神経障害を自覚し, 他院泌尿器科で治療を受けていた. 数カ月前から両下肢に歩行 …

[引用][C] Chest Pain, Dyspnea, and Fatigue in a 57-Year-Old Man

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 …