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Liver transplantation and combined liver-heart transplantation in patients with familial amyloid polyneuropathy: a single-center experience.
Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society - 1 Mar 2010
Barreiros Ana-Paula, Post Felix, Hoppe-Lotichius Maria, Linke Reinhold P, Vahl Christian F, Schäfers Hans-Joachim, Galle Peter R, Otto Gerd
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Liver transplantation (LT) is the only curative option for patients with familial amyloid polyneuropathy (FAP) at present. Twenty patients with FAP underwent LT between May 1998 and June 2007. Transthyretin mutations included predominantly the Val30Met mutation but also 10 other mutations. Seven...
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