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Curative hepatorenal transplantation in systemic amyloidosis caused by the Glu526Val fibrinogen alpha-chain variant in an English family.
QJM : monthly journal of the Association of Physicians - 1 May 2000
Gillmore J D, Booth D R, Rela M, Heaton N D, Rahman V, Stangou A J, Pepys M B, Hawkins P N
Abstract excerpt
A 53-year-old English woman who had been thought to have systemic monoclonal immunoglobulin light chain (AL) amyloidosis was investigated further because of her unusually long 17-year history and a suggestion of renal disease in the family. She was found to have the Glu526Val fibrinogen alpha-chain variant that causes autosomal dominant hereditary systemic amyloidosis. This has not previously been described in a...
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