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Amyloid Polyneuropathy and Myocardial Amyloidosis 10 Years after Domino Liver Transplantation from a Patient with a Transthyretin Ser50Arg Mutation.
Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) - 1 Dec 2017
Matsushima Masaaki, Yabe Ichiro, Tsuda Masaya, Sakakibara Mamoru, Shimamura Tsuyoshi, Sasaki Hidenao
Abstract excerpt
A 54-year-old man with polycystic liver disease received a domino liver transplantation (DLT) from a patient of hereditary ATTR amyloidosis with the transthyretin Ser50Arg mutation. Ten years after transplantation, he felt a slight numbness in his toes, and cardiac amyloidosis was simultaneously suspected upon a heart function evaluation. Biopsy specimens from the myocardium revealed transthyretin amyloidosis...
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