(99m)Tc-pyrophosphate scintigraphy for differentiating light-chain cardiac amyloidosis from the transthyretin-related familial and senile cardiac amyloidoses.
Publication/Presentation Date
3-1-2013
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Differentiating immunoglobulin light-chain (AL) from transthyretin-related cardiac amyloidoses (ATTR) is imperative given implications for prognosis, therapy, and genetic counseling. We validated the discriminatory ability of (99m)Tc-pyrophosphate ((99m)Tc-PYP) scintigraphy in AL versus ATTR.
METHODS AND RESULTS: Forty-five subjects (12 AL, 16 ATTR wild type, and 17 ATTR mutants) underwent (99m)Tc-PYP planar and single-photon positive emission computed tomography cardiac imaging. Scans were performed by experienced nuclear cardiologists blinded to the subjects' cohort assignment. Cardiac retention was assessed with both a semiquantitative visual score (range, 0; no uptake to 3, diffuse uptake) and by quantitative analysis by drawing a region of interest over the heart corrected for contralateral counts and calculating a heart-to-contralateral ratio. Subjects with ATTR cardiac amyloid had a significantly higher semiquantitative cardiac visual score than the AL cohort (2.9±0.06 versus 0.8±0.27; P1.5 consistent with intensely diffuse myocardial tracer retention had a 97% sensitivity and 100% specificity with area under the curve 0.992, P
CONCLUSIONS: (99m)Tc-PYP cardiac imaging distinguishes AL from ATTR cardiac amyloidosis and may be a simple, widely available method for identifying subjects with ATTR cardiac amyloidosis, which should be studied in a larger prospective manner.
Volume
6
Issue
2
First Page
195
Last Page
201
ISSN
1942-0080
Published In/Presented At
Bokhari, Sabahat et al. “(99m)Tc-pyrophosphate scintigraphy for differentiating light-chain cardiac amyloidosis from the transthyretin-related familial and senile cardiac amyloidoses.” Circulation. Cardiovascular imaging vol. 6,2 (2013): 195-201. doi:10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.112.000132
Disciplines
Medicine and Health Sciences
PubMedID
23400849
Department(s)
Department of Medicine
Document Type
Article