A case report of an uncommon presentation of (99m)technetium pyrophosphate scintigraphy in transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis: A potential diagnostic pitfall, pseudo-positive or pseudo-negative?

(99m)Technetium pyrophosphate ((99m)Tc-PYP) scintigraphy has shown utility for diagnosis of transthyretin (ATTR) cardiac amyloidosis with a high sensitivity and specificity. However, in clinical practice, a protocol and a method of analysis of this modality are not yet unified. We present a case of...

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Publicat a:J Cardiol Cases
Autors principals: Ochi, Yuri, Kubo, Toru, Nakashima, Yasuteru, Takahashi, Asa, Baba, Yuichi, Hirota, Takayoshi, Yamasaki, Naohito, Kitaoka, Hiroaki
Format: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicat: Japanese College of Cardiology 2019
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Accés en línia:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6997290/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32042354
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jccase.2019.09.013
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