A challenging road to diagnosing transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis and using technetium-99m pyrophosphate bone scintigraphy in nuclear cardiology-a case report
Cardiac amyloidosis (CA) is a rare form of protein deposition disease, leading to restrictive cardiomyopathy that often presents with signs and symptoms of unexplained heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). There are two main subtypes of CA, namely light chain amyloidosis (AL) and t...
Published in: | Medical Journal of Malaysia |
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Main Author: | Arumugam K.; Onny M.A.A.; Suppiah S.; Aziz A.F.A.; Hashim H.; Shariff R.E.R.; Ng C.S. |
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Malaysian Medical Association
2021
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Online Access: | https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85115184917&partnerID=40&md5=1f711e118d7eeadbdbee1ee12cf4c544 |
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