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“Living With a Question Mark”: Psychosocial Experience of Portuguese Young Adults at Risk for Hereditary Amyloid Transthyretin Amyloidosis With Polyneuropathy

2024-04-08

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>This study is the first to explore the psychosocial experience of young Portuguese adults at genetic risk for hereditary amyloid transthyretin amyloidosis with polyneuropathy (hATTR-PN), specifying developmental peculiarities of their experience with the disease. Sixteen semi-structured interviews were conducted with young adults coming for presymptomatic testing (PST) at a single genet...

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Literature Corpus work: 78d88075-004c-5632-ad0a-d18692eb18cc
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-4183211/v1

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