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Tc-99m HDP uptake in cardiac amyloidosis
1Department of Nuclear Medicine, St. George Hospital, Kogarah, New South Wales, Australia. swadhwa@ozemail.com.au
Clinical Nuclear Medicine
|March 9, 1999
Abstract:
Amyloidosis is characterized by the soft-tissue deposition of amyloid protein. It may occur as a primary disorder but more often is seen as a manifestation of chronic illness. Scattered reports of the affinity of amyloid for bone scanning agents have appeared over many years. Isolated cardiac uptake of Tc-99m HDP is described in a patient with biopsy-proved cardiac amyloidosis on a background of tuberculosis, prostate cancer, and coronary artery disease.