Autopsy of a patient with restrictive cardiomyopathy with and MYH7 mutation

• Main Authors: Hiroaki Kawano (Author), Koichi Kawamura (Author), Munetake Kanda (Author), Nozomi Ueki (Author), Muneo Tanigawa (Author), Mitsuaki Ishijima (Author), Yuji Matsumoto (Author), Masahiro Nakashima (Author), Koji Maemura (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2021-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Restrictive cardiomyopathy (RCM) is a rare type of primary myocardial disease, and its pathological features remain unclear. We report the case of a 78-year-old Japanese woman with RCM and MHY7 mutation who died of heart failure 13 years after the diagnosis. Upon autopsy, focal myocyte amorphous deg...