Diagnostic considerations in cardiomyopathy: unique scintigraphic pattern of diffuse biventricular technetium-99m-pyrophosphate uptake in amyloid heart disease

Am Heart J. 1982 Apr;103(4 Pt 1):562-3. doi: 10.1016/0002-8703(82)90343-x.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Amyloidosis / complications
  • Amyloidosis / diagnosis
  • Amyloidosis / diagnostic imaging*
  • Cardiomyopathies / complications
  • Cardiomyopathies / diagnosis
  • Cardiomyopathies / diagnostic imaging*
  • Diphosphates
  • Electrocardiography
  • Heart Ventricles / diagnostic imaging*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Myocardium / pathology
  • Radionuclide Imaging
  • Technetium
  • Technetium Tc 99m Pyrophosphate

Substances

  • Diphosphates
  • Technetium Tc 99m Pyrophosphate
  • Technetium