Staged heart transplantation and chemotherapy as a treatment option in patients with severe cardiac light-chain amyloidosis.

Authors :: Kristen, Arnt V.
Sack, Falk-Udo
Schonland, Stefan O.
Hegenbart, Ute
Helmke, Burkhard M.
Koch, Achim
Schnabel, Philipp A.
Röcken, Christoph
Hardt, Stefan
Remppis, Andrew
Goldschmidt, Hartmut
Karck, Matthias
Ho, Anthony D.
Katus, Hugo A.
Dengler, Thomas J.
Source :: European Journal of Heart Failure. Oct2009, Vol. 11 Issue 10, p1014-1020. 7p. 5 Charts, 1 Graph.
Publication Year :: 2009
Abstract: Aims: The prognosis of advanced cardiac light-chain amyloidosis is poor. Heart transplantation might enable causative therapy and ultimately improve prognosis. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Subjects :: *HEART transplantation
*TRANSPLANTATION of organs, tissues, etc.
*DRUG therapy
*AMYLOIDOSIS
*LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE disorders

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