A case of late onset cardiac amyloidosis with a new transthyretin variant (Lysine 92)
โ Scribed by Fumio Saito; Masamitsu Nakazato; Haruhiko Akiyama; Yasuyuki Kitahara; Yukari Date; Yoshikazu Iwasaki; Shinsuke Harasawa; Ryouhei Hisaki; Toshiyuki Horie; Noriko Kinukawa; Takayoshi Watanabe; Tatsuo Sakamaki; Hiroshi Yagi; Yoshinobu Hoshii; Chikao Yutani; Katsuo Kanmatsuse
- Book ID
- 117818376
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 158 KB
- Volume
- 32
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1532-8392
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