Cardiac function in hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis : an echocardiographic study

Cardiac function in hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis : an echocardiographic study

Background: Hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTR) is a lethal disease in which misfolded transthyretin (TTR) proteins accumulate as insoluble aggregates in tissues throughout the body. A common mutation is the exchange of valine to methionine at place 30 (TTR V30M), a form endemically found in...

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Main Author: Arvidsson, Sandra
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Umeå universitet, Institutionen för folkhälsa och klinisk medicin 2016
Subjects:
Amyloid
echocardiography
ECG
HCM
fibril type
strain
ATTR
cardiomyopathy
speckle tracking
Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-113891
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:isbn:978-91-7601-399-1

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http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:isbn:978-91-7601-399-1

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