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Danon disease: a phenotypic expression of LAMP-2 deficiency.
Acta neuropathologica - 1 Mar 2015
Endo Yukari, Furuta Akiko, Nishino Ichizo
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Danon disease is an X-linked disorder clinically characterized by the triad of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, myopathy, and intellectual disability. Cardiomyopathy is a severe and life-threatening problem, for which cardiac transplantation is the only therapeutic option. The most striking finding in muscle biopsy samples is small basophilic granules scattered in myofibers, which are in fact small autophagic...
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