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Additional content is available online at Elsevier eBooks for Practicing Clinicians The systemic amyloidoses are a group of diseases characterized by the extracellular deposition of insoluble, misfolded fibrillar proteins in the form of β-pleated sheets, resulting in organ dysfunction. First…

Familial Cardiomyopathies

This chapter reviews four of the most common familial neuromuscular diseases that have significant cardiac manifestations: Friedreich ataxia (FA), myotonic dystrophy (DM), Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), and Becker muscle dystrophy (BMD). These syndromes vary significantly in their inheritance patterns, epidemiology,…

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