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Disease-Specific Biomarkers in Transthyretin Cardiac Amyloidosis.
Current heart failure reports - 1 Jun 2020
Hendren Nicholas S, Roth Lori R, Grodin Justin L
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Transthyretin amyloidosis is an increasingly recognized cause of restrictive cardiomyopathy related to amyloid fibril deposition in cardiac tissues. As treatment therapies have emerged for transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTR), so has interest in using biomarkers to identify disease prior to advanced presentation. RECENT FINDINGS: Lower levels of transthyretin and retinol binding protein-4 have been...
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