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The Journal of Protein Folding Disorders
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Letter

High prevalence of ATTR amyloidosis in endomyocardial biopsy-proven cardiac amyloidosis patients

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Pages 138-140 | Received 24 Dec 2012, Accepted 24 Mar 2013, Published online: 02 May 2013

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