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The Journal of Protein Folding Disorders
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Original Article

Can echocardiography and ECG discriminate hereditary transthyretin V30M amyloidosis from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy?

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Pages 163-170 | Received 16 Oct 2014, Accepted 01 Apr 2015, Published online: 24 Jun 2015

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