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SUBMITTER: Aono Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7946494 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Aono Yuya Y Hamatani Yasuhiro Y Katoh Nagaaki N Nakagawa Mayuko M Nakamura Katsuya K Yazaki Masahide M Kametani Fuyuki F Iguchi Moritake M Murakami Ikuko I Ogawa Hisashi H Abe Mitsuru M Akao Masaharu M Sekijima Yoshiki Y
Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) 20200930 4
The patient was an 82-year-old Japanese man with no family history suggestive of amyloidosis. He developed bilateral leg edema and shortness of breath and was referred to our hospital. An electrocardiogram showed atrial fibrillation with right bundle branch block. Echocardiography showed concentric LV hypertrophy. An endomyocardial biopsy showed severe ATTR amyloid deposits. A genetic analysis of the transthyretin (TTR) gene revealed a heterozygous c.187C>T missense variant resulting in p.P63S ( ...[more]