DISCOVERY OF A NEW hATTR GENETIC VARIANT: A CASE REPORT OF A PATIENT WITH CARDIAC UPTAKE AT 99-MTC-DIPHOSPHONATES SCINTIGRAPHY AND ABNORMAL MONOCLONAL PROTEINS TESTS
Anno:
2023
INTRODUCTION Cardiac amyloidosis is an infiltrative disease that remains an under-diagnosticated cause of heart failure. Diagnostic algorithms focus on identifying the two most frequent forms of the disease, light chains amyloidosis (AL) and transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTR), by the initial use of 99mTc-DPD scintigraphy coupled to assessment of monoclonal proteins….