Cardiac positron-emission tomography images with an amyloid-specific tracer in familial transthyretin-related systemic amyloidosis

Circulation

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 556-557

  Furukawa, Katsutoshi ^a   Ikeda, Shu Ichi ^b   Okamura, Nobuyuki ^c   Tashiro, Manabu ^a   Tomita, Naoki ^a   Furumoto, Shozo ^c   Iwata, Ren ^a   Yanai, Kazuhiko ^c   Kudo, Yukitsuka ^a   Arai, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; APROTININ; BF 227 C 11; CONTRAST MEDIUM; GADOLINIUM; PHOSPHATE; PREALBUMIN; TECHNETIUM 99M; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; BETA SHEET; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DUODENUM BIOPSY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FAMILIAL AMYLOIDOSIS; FAMILY HISTORY; HEART AMYLOIDOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ISOTOPE LABELING; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; NOTE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; SYNCOPE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; AMYLOIDOSIS; BENZOXAZOLES; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; CARDIAC IMAGING TECHNIQUES; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREALBUMIN; THIAZOLES;

EID: 84856498726     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.111.045237     Document Type: Note

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