Delayed small bowel octreotide response in patients with hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis
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Background Gastrointestinal (GI) complications such as constipation, diarrhea and gastroparesis are common in hereditary transthyretin (ATTR) amyloidosis. The mechanisms behind these disturbances have not been fully elucidated and the patients’ small bowel function remains largely unexplored. The aim of the present study was to compare the small bowel motility in patients with hereditary ATTR amyloidosis with that in non-amyloidosis controls.
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