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Genotype, echocardiography, and survival in familial transthyretin amyloidosis.
Amyloid : the international journal of experimental and clinical investigation : the official journal of the International Society of Amyloidosis - 1 Dec 2013
Arruda-Olson Adelaide M, Zeldenrust Steven R, Dispenzieri Angela, Gertz Morie A, Miller Fletcher A, Bielinski Suzette J, Klarich Kyle W, Scott Christopher G, Grogan Martha
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BACKGROUND: More than 100 transthyretin (TTR) variants have been identified which cause familial systemic amyloidosis. It has been increasingly recognized that TTR variants of familial systemic amyloidosis contribute to clinical characteristics, including age at diagnosis, cardiac phenotype and survival. METHODS: Two hundred and eighty-two patients who underwent genotyping for TTR variants were identified. This...
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