Amyloidosis Diagnosis and Treatment /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Gertz, Morie A. (Editor), Rajkumar, S. Vincent. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press : Imprint: Humana Press, 2010.
Series:Contemporary Hematology
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Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60761-631-3
Table of Contents:
  • Fibril structure and fibrillogenesis
  • Etiology and pathogenesis of amyloidosis
  • Diagnosis and classification
  • Imaging and amyloidosis
  • Supportive care in amyloidosis including organ transplantation
  • Assessing response and prognosis in amyloidosis
  • Localized amyloidosis
  • Cardiac amyloidosis
  • Renal amyloidosis
  • Amyloid neuropathy.-Conventional treatment of amyloidosis: decision tree and approach to therapy
  • High dose therapy in amyloidosis
  • Secondary amyloidosis
  • Familial amyloidosis
  • Other systemic forms of amyloidosis.-.