Amyloidosis: Diagnosis and TreatmentMorie A. Gertz, S. Vincent Rajkumar An up-to-date reference on this fascinating set of complex disorders, this book features the most comprehensive strategies for diagnosing, classifying, imaging, treating, and managing amyloidosis in multiple organ systems. Beneficial to the spectrum of practitioners from residents to sub-specialists, this book is a succinct authoritative text written by leaders in the field. The authors provide instruction on all forms of amyloidosis - including primary amyloidosis (AL), secondary amyloidosis (AA), and familial amyloidosis. With essential treatment algorithms, Amyloidosis: Diagnosis and Treatment is the gold-standard for all hematologists, oncologists, and internists caring for patients with this complex disease. |
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Contents
| 1 | |
2 Imaging of Systemic Amyloidosis | 15 |
3 Diagnosis and Classification | 33 |
4 Pathogenesis of Systemic Amyloidoses | 49 |
5 Supportive Care for Amyloidosis | 65 |
6 Assessing Response and Prognosis in AL Amyloidosis | 77 |
7 Localized Amyloidosis | 94 |
8 Amyloid Heart Disease | 107 |
9 Renal Amyloidosis | 129 |
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Common terms and phrases
AA amyloidosis amyloid deposits amyloid fibrils amyloid polyneuropathy amyloid protein amyloidogenic proteins ApoAI apolipoprotein arthritis associated atrial ATTR autologous stem cell Benson MD biochemical biopsy Blood bortezomib cardiac amyloidosis cardiac involvement Cardiol chemotherapy Clin clinical codon colchicine detected dexamethasone diagnosis disease Dispenzieri Doppler dosis dysfunction echocardiography evaluation Falk RH familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy fibril formation fibrinogen free light chain function gelsolin Gertz Gillmore JD Hawkins PN heart failure heart transplantation hematologic response hereditary amyloidosis high-dose melphalan high-dose therapy imaging immunoglobulin light chain Kyle RA Lachmann HJ Lacy MQ left ventricular lenalidomide liver transplantation localized amyloidosis loid loidosis lysozyme median survival melphalan monoclonal mutation myocardial nephrotic syndrome organ response outcome overall survival Palladini G Pathol patients with amyloidosis patients with cardiac patients with primary plasma cell precursor protein primary systemic amyloidosis prognostic proteinuria renal amyloidosis reported scintigraphy serum amyloid stem cell transplantation structure tissue transthyretin treatment variant
Bibliographic information
| Title | Amyloidosis: Diagnosis and Treatment Contemporary Hematology |
| Editors | Morie A. Gertz, S. Vincent Rajkumar |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media, 2010 |
| ISBN | 1607616319, 9781607616313 |
| Length | 238 pages |
| Subjects | › Medical / Clinical Medicine Medical / Hematology Medical / Internal Medicine |
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