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A 13-year-old girl with proximal weakness and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with Danon disease.
Muscle & nerve - 1 Jun 2010
Kim Hunmin, Cho Anna, Lim Byung Chan, Kim Min Jung, Kim Ki Joong, Nishino Ichizo, Hwang Yong Seung, Chae Jong-Hee
Abstract excerpt
Danon disease is caused by deficiency of lysosome-associated membrane protein-2 (LAMP-2). It is characterized clinically by cardiomyopathy, myopathy, and mental retardation in boys. Herein we report a 13-year-old female patient with Danon disease who presented with early-onset skeletal myopathy and cardiomyopathy. She had a de novo novel mutation in the LAMP2 gene, and her muscles showed many autophagic vacuoles...
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