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ASNC/AHA/ASE/EANM/HFSA/ISA/SCMR/SNMMI expert consensus recommendations for multimodality imaging in cardiac amyloidosis: Part 1 of 2—evidence base and standardized methods of imaging

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Abbreviations

AL:

Amyloid immunoglobulin light chain

ATTR:

Amyloid transthyretin

DPD:

99mTc-3,3-Diphosphono-1,2-propanodicarboxylic acid

ECV:

Extracellular volume

EF:

Ejection fraction

HMDP:

Hydroxymethylenediphosphonate

LGE:

Late gadolinium enhancement

LV:

Left ventricular

PYP:

Pyrophosphate

Tc:

99mTechnetium

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We would like to thank the reviewers of this document for their input, which has significantly improved the quality of this document, including Renée P. Bullock-Palmer, MD, FACC, FASNC, FASE, FSCCT; Dennis A. Calnon, MD, FASNC; Marcelo F. Di Carli, MD; Martha Grogan, MD; Phillip Hawkins, PhD, FMedSci; Wael A. Jaber, MD, FACC, FAHA; Prem Soman, MD, FASNC; James E. Udelson, MD, FACC; Ashutosh D. Wechalekar, DM, MRCP, FRCPath.

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    Sharmila Dorbala MD, MPH, FASNC (Chair), Rodney H. Falk MD & Raymond Y. Kwong MD, MPH

  2. Department of Neurology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan

    Yukio Ando MD, PhD

  3. Columbia University Medical Center/New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

    Sabahat Bokhari MD & Mathew S. Maurer MD

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    Victor A. Ferrari MD

  6. Division of Medicine, National Amyloidosis Centre, University College London, London, UK

    Marianna Fontana PhD, Julian D. Gillmore MD, PhD, James C. Moon MD & C. Cristina Quarta MD, PhD

  7. Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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  20. Departments of Medicine and Radiology, Cardiovascular Imaging Center, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA

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Dorbala, S., Ando, Y., Bokhari, S. et al. ASNC/AHA/ASE/EANM/HFSA/ISA/SCMR/SNMMI expert consensus recommendations for multimodality imaging in cardiac amyloidosis: Part 1 of 2—evidence base and standardized methods of imaging. J. Nucl. Cardiol. 26, 2065–2123 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12350-019-01760-6

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