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Phospholamban immunostaining is a highly sensitive and specific method for diagnosing phospholamban p.Arg14del cardiomyopathy.
Cardiovascular pathology : the official journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Pathology - 1 Jan 2000
Te Rijdt Wouter P, van der Klooster Z Joy, Hoorntje Edgar T, Jongbloed Jan D H, van der Zwaag Paul A, Asselbergs Folkert W, Dooijes Dennis, de Boer Rudolf A, van Tintelen J Peter, van den Berg Maarten P, Vink Aryan, Suurmeijer Albert J H
Abstract excerpt
Phospholamban (PLN) p.Arg14del cardiomyopathy is associated with an increased risk of malignant ventricular arrhythmias and severe heart failure and a poor prognosis from late adolescence. It can be diagnosed in whole heart specimens, but rarely in right ventricular biopsy specimens, by PLN immunohistochemistry showing PLN-containing aggregates concentrated in cardiomyocytes in dense perinuclear aggresomes. The...
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