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Giant Ring Mitochondria in a Patient With Heart Failure and Cerebral White Matter Disease Resulting From an MT-TL1 Mitochondrial Gene Mutation.
Journal of cardiac failure - 1 Aug 2017
Houston Brian A, Judge Daniel P, Brown Emily, Halushka Marc, Barouch Lili A
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BACKGROUND: The presence of giant ring mitochondria on endomyocardial biopsy is rarely reported and does not have a well-defined differential diagnosis. METHODS: We report the case of a 54-year-old man with heart failure and preserved ejection fraction and left ventricular hypertrophy, initially thought to have an infiltrative cardiomyopathy. RESULTS: The patient was found to have extensive vacuolization caused...
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