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Utility of (99 m)Tc-Pyrophosphate Scintigraphy in Diagnosing Transthyretin Cardiac Amyloidosis in Real-World Practice

Background: Amyloid transthyretin (ATTR) cardiac amyloidosis has now been recognized as one of the major causes of heart failure, especially in elderly patients. The purpose of the present study was to validate the usefulness of technetium-99 m ((99 m)Tc)-pyrophosphate ((99 m)Tc-PYP) scintigraphy in...

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Autores principales: Tsutsui, Yoshitomo, Kubota, Toru, Kato, Seiya, Nozoe, Masatsugu, Suematsu, Nobuhiro, Okabe, Masanori, Yamamoto, Yusuke, Tsutsui, Hiroyuki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Japanese Circulation Society 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7892493/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33693151
http://dx.doi.org/10.1253/circrep.CR-19-0015