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Review article: Medical guidelines

Vol. 151 No. 4142 (2021)

Management of transthyretin amyloidosis: Guidelines from the 1st Swiss Amyloidosis Network (SAN) Consensus conference

  • Adalgisa Condoluci
  • Marie Théaudin
  • Rahel Schwotzer
  • Aju P. Pazhenkottil
  • Paolo Arosio
  • Manuela Averaimo
  • Ulrike Bacher
  • Peter Bode
  • Andrea Cavalli
  • Stefan Dirnhofer
  • Nadia Djerbi
  • Stephan Dobner
  • Thomas Fehr
  • Maura Garofalo
  • Ariana Gaspert
  • Sabine Gerull
  • Raphael Heimgartner
  • Annemarie Hübers
  • Hans H. Jung
  • Chiara Kessler
  • Raphael Knöpfel
  • Natallia Laptseva
  • Giulia Magini
  • Robert Manka
  • Luca Mazzucchelli
  • Martin Meyer
  • Violeta Mihaylova
  • Pierre Monney
  • Alessio Mylonas
  • René Nkoulou
  • Thomas Pabst
  • Otmar Pfister
  • Axel Rüfer
  • Adrian Schmidt
  • Harald Seeger
  • Simon F. Stämpfli
  • Guido Stirnimann
  • Thomas Suter
  • Giorgio Treglia
  • Alexandar Tzankov
  • Friederike Vetter
  • Markus Zweier
  • Andreas J. Flammer
  • Bernhard Gerber
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Swiss Med Wkly. 2021;151:w30053
Published
20.10.2021

Summary

This article was corrected and republished online on November 4, 2021. Please see Erratum (Swiss Med Wkly. 2021;151:w30104)

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