Technetium-99m pyrophosphate cardiac SPECT in endomyocardial biopsy negative cardiac amyloidosis

Cardiac amyloidosis is an under-appreciated cause of heart failure. Establishing a diagnosis is important because traditional heart failure treatment regimens can worsen left ventricular failure in this disease. Endomyocardial biopsy is the gold standard for diagnosis; however, scintigraphy with rad...

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Main Authors: Martin Krupa, MD, Rina Nguyen, BS, Jonathan Revels, DO, Lester S. Johnson, MD, PhD, FACR
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-10-01
Series:Radiology Case Reports
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1930043318302267