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Morphological, clinical and genetic aspects in a family with a novel LAMP-2 gene mutation (Danon disease).
Neuromuscular disorders : NMD - 1 Apr 2005
Lobrinus J A, Schorderet D F, Payot M, Jeanrenaud X, Bottani A, Superti-Furga A, Schlaepfer J, Fromer M, Jeannet P-Y
Abstract excerpt
A family with several cases of severe cardiomyopathy and moderate myopathy is described, affecting two brothers and their cousin as well as their mothers. One boy died of sudden cardiac arrest at 17 years of age. The two brothers were treated with an implantable defibrillator and their mother died suddenly at 40 years of age. Muscle biopsy in males showed vacuolar myopathy in two cases, and no abnormality on...
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