False positive technetium-99m pyrophosphate scintigraphy in a patient with cardiac amyloidosis light chain: Case report

INTRODUCTION: Patients with cardiac amyloidosis light chain (AL) present with negative Tc-99m pyrophosphate (PYP) scintigraphy (absent or mild heart uptake). On the contrary, patients with cardiac amyloidosis transthyretin (ATTR) present with positive Tc-99m PYP scanning (intensive heart uptake). We...

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Publicat a:Medicine (Baltimore)
Autors principals: Zeng, Yu, Poterucha, Timothy J., Einstein, Andrew J., Zhang, Qing, Chen, Yucheng, Xie, Hangyu, Wan, Ke, Liang, Yujia, Chen, Juncheng, Tang, Gongshun
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Idioma:Inglês
Publicat: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2021
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Accés en línia:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8084032/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33907108
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000025582
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