Rapidly progressive transthyretin-mediated amyloidosis in a domino liver transplant recipient of a Ser23Asn donor

Journal of Clinical Neuromuscular Disease

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 142-145

  Dixit, Neel ^a   Castano, Adam ^b   Farr, Mary Jane ^b   Traub, Rebecca ^a   Lentzsch, Suzanne ^b   Brown, Robert S ^b   Maurer, Mathew S ^b   Brannagan, Thomas H ^a  

^a NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b College of Physicians and Surg ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiomyopathy; Polyneuropathy; Systemic amyloidosis; TC pyrophosphate scan; TTR gene

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; DIFLUNISAL; PREALBUMIN; ASPARAGINE; SERINE;

ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMYLOIDOSIS; AORTA STENOSIS; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC COUGH; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DIZZINESS; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FATIGUE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; GENE MUTATION; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEART AMYLOIDOSIS; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEG EDEMA; LIMB PAIN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEDIAN NERVE; MONONEUROPATHY; MUSCLE DENERVATION; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; ORGAN DONOR; PARESTHESIA; PERIPHERAL EDEMA; PERONEUS NERVE; POLYNEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; REVIEW; SENSORIMOTOR NEUROPATHY; SKIN BIOPSY; SMALL FIBER NEUROPATHY; SURAL NERVE; TIBIAL NERVE; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; TRANSTHYRETIN MEDIATED AMYLOIDOSIS; ULNAR NERVE; AMYLOID NEUROPATHIES, FAMILIAL; GENETICS; MUTATION; PROCEDURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AMYLOID NEUROPATHIES, FAMILIAL; ASPARAGINE; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MUTATION; PREALBUMIN; SERINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84959931614     PISSN: 15220443     EISSN: 15371611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CND.0000000000000110     Document Type: Review

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