Nonbiopsy diagnosis of cardiac transthyretin amyloidosis

JD Gillmore, MS Maurer, RH Falk, G Merlini, T Damy… - Circulation, 2016 - Am Heart Assoc
Background—Cardiac transthyretin (ATTR) amyloidosis is a progressive and fatal
cardiomyopathy for which several promising therapies are in development. The diagnosis is …

Yield of noncardiac biopsy for the diagnosis of transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis

NM Fine, AM Arruda-Olson, A Dispenzieri… - The American Journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Transthyretin (ATTR) cardiac amyloidosis may be because of mutant transthyretin causing
familial amyloid cardiomyopathy (FAC) or wild-type transthyretin causing systemic senile …

Diagnostic accuracy of bone scintigraphy in the assessment of cardiac transthyretin-related amyloidosis: a bivariate meta-analysis

G Treglia, AWJM Glaudemans, F Bertagna… - European journal of …, 2018 - Springer
Purpose Cardiac transthyretin-related amyloidosis (ATTR) is a progressive and fatal
cardiomyopathy. The diagnosis of this disease is frequently delayed or missed due to the …

Cardiac Scintigraphy With Technetium-99m-Labeled Bone-Seeking Tracers for Suspected Amyloidosis: JACC Review Topic of the Week

M Hanna, FL Ruberg, MS Maurer, A Dispenzieri… - Journal of the American …, 2020 - jacc.org
Technetium-labeled cardiac scintigraphy (ie, Tc-PYP scan) has been repurposed for the
diagnosis of transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM). Validated in cohorts of …

99mTc-Pyrophosphate Scintigraphy for Differentiating Light-Chain Cardiac Amyloidosis From the Transthyretin-Related Familial and Senile Cardiac Amyloidoses

S Bokhari, A Castaño, T Pozniakoff… - Circulation …, 2013 - Am Heart Assoc
Background—Differentiating immunoglobulin light-chain (AL) from transthyretin-related
cardiac amyloidoses (ATTR) is imperative given implications for prognosis, therapy, and …

Cardiac amyloidosis: evolving diagnosis and management: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association

MM Kittleson, MS Maurer, AV Ambardekar… - Circulation, 2020 - Am Heart Assoc
Transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM) results in a restrictive cardiomyopathy
caused by extracellular deposition of transthyretin, normally involved in the transportation of …

State-of-the-art radionuclide imaging in cardiac transthyretin amyloidosis

V Singh, R Falk, MF Di Carli, M Kijewski… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2019 - Elsevier
Cardiac amyloidosis, once considered untreatable, is now gaining well-deserved attention
due to advances in imaging and the recent approval of targeted breakthrough therapies. In …

Usefulness of 99mTc-HMDP scintigraphy for the etiologic diagnosis and prognosis of cardiac amyloidosis

A Galat, J Rosso, A Guellich, A Van Der Gucht… - Amyloid, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Amyloidosis is characterized by extracellular deposits of insoluble proteins that
cause tissue damage. The three main types are monoclonal light chain (AL), wild-type …

Diagnosing transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis by technetium Tc 99m pyrophosphate: a test in evolution

TJ Poterucha, P Elias, S Bokhari, AJ Einstein… - Cardiovascular …, 2021 - jacc.org
Objectives This study aimed to characterize trends in technetium Tc 99m pyrophosphate
(99mTc-PYP) scanning for amyloid transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis (ATTR-CA) diagnosis …

Magnetic resonance in transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis

A Martinez-Naharro, TA Treibel, A Abdel-Gadir… - Journal of the American …, 2017 - jacc.org
Background: Cardiac transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTR) is an increasingly recognized cause
of heart failure. Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR), with late gadolinium enhancement …