Systemic amyloidosis with severe amyloid heart disease ― A case report

Systemic amyloidosis with severe amyloid heart disease ― A case report

Cardiac Amyloidosis was first observed by Vichow in 1957. Since then many more cases have been documented, but there has been no case report of mortality from severe cardiac involvement in the local literature. We describe one such case seen in the Singapore General Hospital and review briefly the c...

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Veröffentlicht in:Singapore medical journal 1989-06, Vol.30 (3), p.313-316
Hauptverfasser: WOO, B. Y. C, YEOH, T. K, HO, J. M. S, NG, A. S. H
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Amyloidosis - diagnosis
Biological and medical sciences
Cardiology. Vascular system
Cardiomyopathies - diagnosis
Death, Sudden - pathology
Echocardiography
Humans
Male
Medical sciences
Middle Aged
Myocardium - pathology
Skin - pathology
Tropical medicine
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Zusammenfassung:Cardiac Amyloidosis was first observed by Vichow in 1957. Since then many more cases have been documented, but there has been no case report of mortality from severe cardiac involvement in the local literature. We describe one such case seen in the Singapore General Hospital and review briefly the clinico-pathological data on this uncommon entity.
ISSN:0037-5675