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Bone-Avid Tracer Cardiac Scintigraphy for Cardiac Amyloidosis

An overview of cardiac amyloidosis, with a summary of bone-avid tracer cardiac scintigraphy, and an approach to accurate interpretation and reporting of technetium 99m bone-avid tracer cardiac findings.

Course IDQ00790
ModalitiesCT, Nuclear Cardiology, Nuclear Medicine, PET, RRA
Credits2.75 Category A CE credits
GuaranteeSatisfaction Guarantee
$29.00tuition
  1. 01Introduction
  2. 02Cardiac Amyloidosis
  3. 03Imaging Evaluation of HFpEF in Older Adults
  4. 04Noninvasive Diagnosis of ATTR-CA without Biopsy
  5. 05Mechanism of Nyocardial Uptake of Bone-Avid Tracers in Amyloidosis
  6. 0699mTc-PYP/DPD/HMDP Scintigraphy for Risk Assessment in ATTR-CA
  7. 0799mTc-PYP/DPD/HMDP Scintigraphy to unravel the prevalence of ATTR-CA in Select at-Risk Cohorts
  8. 08Novel Targeted Therapies for ATTR-CA
  9. 09Clicical Vignette
  10. 10How to Acquire 99mTc-PYP/DPD/HMDP Images
  11. 11How to Interpret 99mTc-PYP/DPD/HMDP images: A Systematic Aproach
  12. 12Step 1: Perform Quality Control
  13. 13Step 2: Confirm the Presence of Rib Uptake as a Check for Appropriate Timing of Scan Acquisition
  14. 14Step 3: Distinguish Myocardial 99mTc-PYP Uptake from Blood Pool Activity
  15. 15Step 4: Interpret Myocardial Uptake: Visual Assessment and Grading of 99mTc-PYP Images
  16. 16Optional Step for Interpretation: Semiquantitative Method of H/CL Ratio at Planar Imaging
  17. 17Step 5: Exclude a Monoclonal Process with Serum/Urine Immunofixation Electrophoresis and a Serum Free AL Assay in All Patients with Suspected Cardiac Amyloidosis
  18. 18Step 6: Review for Physiologic Tracer Distribution and Extracardiac Tracer Activity
  19. 19Challenges with 99mTc-PYP/DPD/HMDP Image Interpretation
  20. 20False-Positive 99mTc-PYP/DPD/HMDP Scans
  21. 21High Blood Pool Activity
  22. 22Recent Acute Myocardial Infarct and Other Myocardial Injuries
  23. 23False-Negative 99mTc-PYP/DPD/HMDP Scans
  24. 24Clinical Reporting of 99mTc-PYP/DPD/HMDP Studies
  25. 25When to Refer for Further Evaluation Including Endomyocardial Biopsy
  26. 26Future: Quantification of Cardiac Amyloidosis with Use of SPECT and SPECT/CT

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