Liver transplantation and combined liver-heart transplantation in patients with familial amyloid polyneuropathy: a single-center experience.

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Published in Liver Transpl on March 01, 2010

Authors

Ana-Paula Barreiros1, Felix Post, Maria Hoppe-Lotichius, Reinhold P Linke, Christian F Vahl, Hans-Joachim Schäfers, Peter R Galle, Gerd Otto

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Internal Medicine I, Johannes Gutenberg University, Langenbeckstrasse 1, 55101 Mainz, Germany. barreiro@mail.uni-mainz.de

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