Cargando…

Improvement of global longitudinal strain following high-dose chemotherapy and autologous peripheral blood stem cell transplantation in patients with amyloid light-chain cardiac amyloidosis: a case report

BACKGROUND: Cardiac amyloidosis (CA) is a secondary form of cardiomyopathy where abnormal accumulation of amyloid protein in the myocardial interstitium causes cardiac hypertrophy and myocardial fibrosis. If primary CA advances to heart failure, most patients do not survive for very long after the d...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Hirata, Yukina, Kusunose, Kenya, Miki, Hirokazu, Yamada, Hirotsugu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6939805/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31911987
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ehjcr/ytz225