Cardiac amyloidosis responding to bortezomib: case report and review of literature.

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Published in Curr Cardiol Rev on August 01, 2009

Authors

Edriss Charaf1, Said B Iskandar, Ashley Blevins, Bernard Abi-Saleh, Stephen Fahrig

Author Affiliations

1: Division of Cardiology, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, USA.

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