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Biochemical effect of liver transplantation in two Swedish patients with familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy (FAP‐met<sup>30</sup>)
1 Sept 1991
Abstract excerpt
Familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy (FAP) is an autosomal dominant inherited disorder characterized by progressive peripheral and autonomic neuropathy, associated with neural and systemic amyloid deposits. The amyloid fibrils contain a variant transthyretin (TTR) molecule (TTR met30), over 90% of which is produced in the liver. After liver transplantation in two patients with severe symptomatic FAP, only normal...
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