21 yo with no PMH develops acute heart failure, progresses to transplant. Post-transplant has new skeletal myopathy, now wheelchair-bound. We recommend exome+mito. Denied. Peer-to-peer: "this isn't an unusual presentation." Just another day in the US healthcare system.

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