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Case Reports
. 1997;31(6):357-9.
doi: 10.3109/14017439709075953.

Heart transplantation for Finnish type familial systemic amyloidosis

A L Fernández  1 , J M Herreros, A M Monzonis, A Panizo
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Case Reports

Heart transplantation for Finnish type familial systemic amyloidosis

A L Fernández et al. Scand Cardiovasc J. 1997.
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Abstract

A patient with Finnish type familial systemic amyloidosis associated with lattice corneal dystrophy (Meretoja's syndrome) underwent heart transplantation with uneventful postoperative course. Five years later the patient has mild chronic renal failure, normal cardiac allograft function and almost total bilateral blindness.

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