Isolated cardiac amyloidosis. Utility of bone seeking tracers scintigraphy in differentiating the subtype of amyloid: A case report
| Autor: | E Foukarakis, Sophia Koukouraki, Olga Bourogianni, Emmanouela Papadaki |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
Amyloid
Pathology medicine.medical_specialty Technetium Tc 99m Pyrophosphate 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology Scintigraphy Sensitivity and Specificity Bone and Bones 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Humans Medicine Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Serum amyloid A Radionuclide Imaging Aged medicine.diagnostic_test biology business.industry Myocardium Amyloidosis Disease progression medicine.disease Transthyretin Cardiac amyloidosis Heart failure Disease Progression biology.protein Radiopharmaceuticals Cardiomyopathies Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Nuclear Cardiology. 26:337-341 |
| ISSN: | 1532-6551 1071-3581 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s12350-018-1233-8 |
| Popis: | Three types of amyloid are responsible for cardiac amyloidosis. Differentiation of the subtype is critical for the disease progression and the therapeutic decision. Myocardial scintigraphy using Tc-PYP is able to differentiate the cardiac amyloid subtype with high sensitivity and specificity. The myocardial uptake of PYP is higher in patients with TTR amyloidosis. Non-invasive tests for the detection of cardiac amyloidosis, like myocardial scintigraphy with bone seeking tracers, can play a major role in the diagnosis progression and therapeutic management of patients with cardiac amyloidosis. |
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