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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2011-1-31
pubmed:abstractText
In patients with familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy (FAP), heart complications are prognostic factors for mortality and morbidity after liver transplantation (LT). However, only a few studies have analyzed the development of arrhythmia in transplant patients with FAP. We investigated the development of arrhythmia requiring pacemaker insertion (PMI) in Swedish transplant patients with FAP, and we related the findings to gender, age at disease onset, and survival. One hundred four transplant patients with the amyloidogenic transthyretin Val30Met mutation were included in the study. Twenty-six (25%) received a pacemaker during the observation period (a median of 11 years after disease onset). This frequency was comparable to that noted in a previous study describing the natural course of FAP. No significant differences in PMI between early-onset cases (<50 years old) and late-onset cases (? 50 years old) or between genders were observed. PMI was not significantly related to patient survival. Our study confirms our previously reported short-time observation: LT does not prevent the development of heart arrhythmia necessitating PMI. The development of arrhythmia is unrelated to gender or age at disease onset, and the yearly risk does not appear to decrease with time after LT.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
1527-6473
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright © 2011 American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases.
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
17
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
122-8
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:21280184-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:21280184-Age of Onset, pubmed-meshheading:21280184-Aged, pubmed-meshheading:21280184-Amyloid Neuropathies, Familial, pubmed-meshheading:21280184-Arrhythmias, Cardiac, pubmed-meshheading:21280184-Cardiac Pacing, Artificial, pubmed-meshheading:21280184-Chi-Square Distribution, pubmed-meshheading:21280184-Female, pubmed-meshheading:21280184-Genetic Predisposition to Disease, pubmed-meshheading:21280184-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:21280184-Kaplan-Meier Estimate, pubmed-meshheading:21280184-Liver Transplantation, pubmed-meshheading:21280184-Male, pubmed-meshheading:21280184-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:21280184-Mutation, pubmed-meshheading:21280184-Prealbumin, pubmed-meshheading:21280184-Proportional Hazards Models, pubmed-meshheading:21280184-Risk Assessment, pubmed-meshheading:21280184-Risk Factors, pubmed-meshheading:21280184-Sweden, pubmed-meshheading:21280184-Time Factors, pubmed-meshheading:21280184-Treatment Outcome, pubmed-meshheading:21280184-Young Adult
pubmed:year
2011
pubmed:articleTitle
Continuous development of arrhythmia is observed in Swedish transplant patients with familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy (amyloidogenic transthyretin Val30Met variant).
pubmed:affiliation
Departments of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't