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Cardiac amyloidosis: report of a patient heterozygous for the transthyretin isoleucine 122 variant.
Scandinavian journal of immunology - 1 Oct 1990
Saraiva M J, Sherman W, Marboe C, Figueira A, Costa P, de Freitas A F, Gawinowicz M A
Abstract excerpt
Amyloid fibril material was extracted from autopsy material of a patient who died from progressive cardiac failure at age 64. He had enlarged heart on routine X-ray at age 47 and the first symptoms of cardiac failure at age 62. Fractionation of the fibril material resolved peptide fragments immunoreactive with anti-human transthyretin (TTR). One of the peptides was further purified by high-performance liquid...
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