Amyloid heart disease mimicking hypertrophic cardiomyopathy*

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OBJECTIVE: To investigate the importance of transthyretin (TTR) gene mutations in explaining the phenotypic expression in patients diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) in northern Sweden. BACKGROUND: Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is relatively common and often caused by mutations in sarcomeric protein genes. Mutations in the TTR gene are also common, one of which causes familial amyloid polyneuropathy...

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