A positive PYP scan: Thinking beyond amyloidJournal of Nuclear Cardiology -doi:10.1007/s12350-020-02149-6Shaden KhalafNajah KhanMouaz Al-MallahMahwash KassiDipan ShahSpringer International PublishingJournal of Nuclear Cardiology
Abstract 17110: Racial Differences in the Performance of the Transthyretin Amyloid Cardiomyopathy Risk Score Introduction:Early diagnosis of transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis is crucial, particularly with the availability of disease-modifying therapies. Tc-99m pyr... MCE Helou,M Gupta,M Hussain,... - ...
It is well known that99mtechnetium-labeled bone scan radiotracers can localize in the myocardial amyloid deposits, but the use of this imaging modality to differentiate between the two subtypes has only lately been revisited. We report a case of a 76-year-old man with a clinical diagnosis of...
Quantitative single photon emission computed tomography derived standardized uptake values on 99mTc-PYP scan in patients with suspected ATTR cardiac amyloidosisCardiooncologyHeart failureAmyloidNuclear imagingRadiologyMultimodality imagingTechnetium-99 pyrophosphate scintigraphy (99mTc-PYP) provides qualitative and semi...
Amyloid heart diseaseSPECThybrid imagingimage analysisimage interpretationBackground:We investigated quantitative Methods:Data were reviewed for 318 patients with suspected ATTR who underwent PYP SPECT/CT. Myocardial-to-blood pool count (MBP) ratios were computed and repeated independently>1month later. A...