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Systemic amyloidosis: diagnosis before treatment.
The Journal of heart and lung transplantation : the official publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation - 1 Aug 2002
Conraads Viviane M, Colpaert Cecile G, Van Hoof Viviane, Suhr Ole B, Vrints Christiaan J
Abstract excerpt
Familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy is a systemic amyloidosis with a dismal prognosis for which a surgical treatment exists. Awareness of the clinical characteristics of the disease is critical for early genetic diagnosis and timely referral for liver transplantation. In this report we describe the history of a 49-year-old man in whom non-AA amyloidotic infiltration of the heart and the intestinal tract was...
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