Amyloidosis of the Brain and Heart: Two Sides of the Same Coin?

JACC Heart Fail. 2019 Feb;7(2):129-131. doi: 10.1016/j.jchf.2018.12.014.

Authors

Chris L Schaich¹, Mathew S Maurer², Neelesh K Nadkarni³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, Section on Cardiovascular Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
² Clinical Cardiovascular Research Laboratory for the Elderly, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York. Electronic address: msm10@cumc.columbia.edu.
³ Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatric Medicine and Neurology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

No abstract available

Keywords: Alzheimer; amyloid; transthyretin.

Publication types

Editorial
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
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MeSH terms

Alzheimer Disease*
Amyloidosis*
Brain
Heart Failure*
Humans
Prealbumin

Substances

Prealbumin

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