1. A Middle-Aged Man Presenting With Progressive Heart Failure, Myopathy, and Monoclonal Gammopathy of Uncertain Significance
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Kaspar Broch, Christoffer Jonsrud, Einar Gude, Silje Skaara, Ellen-Ann Antal, Gerhard Bosse, Ahmed Elsais, Yngvar Fløisand, Terje Hegard, and Trine Haug Popperud
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0301 basic medicine ,Cardiac function curve ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Cardiomyopathy ,Case Report ,SLONM, sporadic late-onset nemaline myopathy ,030105 genetics & heredity ,MGUS, monoclonal gammopathy of uncertain significance ,Endomyocardial biopsy ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Clinical Case ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,echocardiography ,Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system ,Myopathy ,Uncertain significance ,business.industry ,imaging ,medicine.disease ,Skeletal myopathy ,chronic heart failure ,Monoclonal gammopathy ,Heart failure ,RC666-701 ,Cardiology ,right-sided catheterization ,medicine.symptom ,Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine ,business ,cardiomyopathy ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
A 48-year-old man presented with rapidly progressive heart failure and monoclonal gammopathy of uncertain significance. No specific cause was detected on endomyocardial biopsy. As the heart failure worsened, he also developed progressive skeletal myopathy. This provided the clue to the diagnosis, and cardiac function recovered rapidly with cause-directed therapy. (Level of Difficulty: Intermediate.), Graphical abstract, A 48-year-old man presented with rapidly progressive heart failure and monoclonal gammopathy of uncertain significance. No specific cause was…
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- 2020