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Transthyretin amyloidosis presenting with multifocal demyelinating mononeuropathies
Hannah R Briemberg1, Anthony A Amato
1Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis St., Boston Massachusetts 02115, USA. briemberg@partners.org
Muscle & Nerve
|February 3, 2004
Abstract:
We describe a patient with transthyretin amyloidosis who presented with multifocal mononeuropathies with features of demyelination on nerve conduction studies, a constellation of findings not previously described in amyloid polyneuropathy. Genetic testing revealed a valine122isoleucine mutation in the coding region of the transthyretin gene, a mutation that generally presents with late-onset cardiac amyloidosis. Our patient was also unusual in that she was 34 years old at the time of presentation and had no cardiac involvement.