Amyloidosis Diagnosis and Treatment /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Gertz, Morie A. (Editor), Rajkumar, S. Vincent (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press : Imprint: Humana Press, 2010.
• Series: Contemporary Hematology
• Subjects: Medicine.; Internal medicine.; Hematology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Internal Medicine.

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...

Table of Contents:

• Fibril Structure and Fibrillogenesis
• Imaging of Systemic Amyloidosis
• Diagnosis and Classification
• Pathogenesis of Systemic Amyloidoses
• Supportive Care for Amyloidosis
• Assessing Response and Prognosis in AL Amyloidosis
• Localized Amyloidosis
• Amyloid Heart Disease
• Renal Amyloidosis
• Primary Systemic Amyloid Neuropathy
• Conventional Treatment of Amyloidosis
• High-Dose Therapy in Amyloidosis
• Secondary, AA, Amyloidosis
• ATTR: Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Treatment
• Other Systemic Forms of Amyloidosis.