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Familial globotriaosylceramide-associated cardiomyopathy mimicking Fabry disease.
Heart (British Cardiac Society) - 1 Nov 2014
Apelland Turid, Gude Einar, Strøm Erik H, Gullestad Lars, Eiklid Kristin L, Månsson Jan-Eric, Reinholt Finn P, Houge Gunnar, Dahl Christen P, Almaas Vibeke M, Heiberg Arvid
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OBJECTIVE: To characterise a globotriaosylceramide (Gb3) storage cardiomyopathy mimicking Fabry. METHODS: We investigated five patients from two unrelated families with early adult onset unexplained left ventricular hypertrophy. Endomyocardial biopsy was performed in all patients and diagnostic kidney biopsies in two of them. We measured α-galactosidase A activity in all patients. Three patients were checked for...
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