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Echocardiographic and pathologic findings of wild-type transthyretin senile systemic amyloidosis developed in early 50s

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We thank Taro Yamashita, MD and Yukio Ando, MD from Kumamoto University for their support in genetic analysis of the present case.

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  1. Miyazaki Medical Association Hospital Cardiovascular Center, 738-1 Funado, Shinbeppu-cho, Miyazaki, 880-0834, Japan

    Goro Yoshioka, Nozomi Watanabe, Keiichi Ashikaga, Nehiro Kuriyama & Yoshisato Shibata

  2. Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan

    Hiroyuki Koita & Yujiro Asada

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Goro Yoshioka, Nozomi Watanabe, Hiroyuki Koita, Yujiro Asada, Keiichi Ashikaga, Nehiro Kuriyama, and Yoshisato Shibata declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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Yoshioka, G., Watanabe, N., Koita, H. et al. Echocardiographic and pathologic findings of wild-type transthyretin senile systemic amyloidosis developed in early 50s. J Echocardiogr 16, 187–188 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12574-018-0380-x

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