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Editorial
. 2024 Mar 1:398:131442.
doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2023.131442. Epub 2023 Oct 17.

The electrocardiographic signature of variant transthyretin amyloidosis

Sarah Slaven  1 , David S Raymer  1 , Luisa Mestroni  2
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Editorial

The electrocardiographic signature of variant transthyretin amyloidosis

Sarah Slaven et al. Int J Cardiol. .
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Fig. 1.
Example ECG from vATTR patient with Thr80Ala mutation The above ECG was taken from a vATTR patient at our institution with mixed cardiomyopathy and neuropathy phenotype, Thr80Ala mutation. The ECG demonstrates normal sinus rhythm with low QRS voltage and pseudonecrosis pattern in the inferior leads.
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