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Cardiac Anderson-Fabry disease: lessons from a 25-year-follow up.
Revista portuguesa de cardiologia : orgao oficial da Sociedade Portuguesa de Cardiologia = Portuguese journal of cardiology : an official journal of the Portuguese Society of Cardiology - 1 Apr 2014
Brito Dulce, Miltenberger-Miltenyi Gabriel, Moldovan Oana, Navarro Carmen, Madeira Hugo Costa
Abstract excerpt
Sarcomeric hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most common genetic cause of unexplained left ventricular hypertrophy and has no specific treatment. Anderson-Fabry disease (AFD) is rare and usually multisystemic, but occasionally expresses clinically as a predominantly cardiac phenotype mimicking HCM. We describe an illustrative case of a patient followed regularly for 25 years with a diagnosis of familial...
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