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Sex-Related Risk of Cardiac Involvement in Hereditary Transthyretin Amyloidosis
11 Aug 2021
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: Because patients with ATTRv cardiomyopathy are more likely to be male, this analysis aimed to increase information on associations between sex and genotype, phenotype, and degree of myocardial involvement in ATTRv amyloidosis. BACKGROUND: Transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy is a progressive, fatal disease that occurs due to accumulation of wild-type or variant (ATTRv) transthyretin amyloid fibrils in...
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