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Imaging cardiac amyloidosis: Patient page

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Amyloidosis is a disease that develops when abnormally folded proteins collect together to form amyloid fibrils, which deposit in various organs and cause organ damage. Amyloidosis in the heart can be identified by using various imaging tests. This patient page provides an overview of imaging in cardiac amyloidosis.

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  1. Cardiovascular Imaging Program, Division of Nuclear Medicine, Departments of Medicine (Cardiovascular Division) and Radiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA

    Sharmila Dorbala MD, MPH, FASNC

  2. Cardiac Amyloidosis Program, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA

    Sharmila Dorbala MD, MPH, FASNC & Rodney Falk MD

  3. Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Heart & Vascular Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA

    Sharmila Dorbala MD, MPH, FASNC & Rodney Falk MD

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Correspondence to Sharmila Dorbala MD, MPH, FASNC.

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RHF has received consulting fees from Ionis Pharmaceuticals and Alnylam Pharmaceuticals and research funding from GlaxoSmithKline. SD has received consulting fees from Pfizer, GE Health Care, and AAA.

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SD and RF are supported by NIH RO1 Grant (RO1 HL 130563); SD is supported by American Heart Association Grant (AHA 16 CSA 2888 0004).

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Dorbala, S., Falk, R. Imaging cardiac amyloidosis: Patient page. J. Nucl. Cardiol. 26, 217–221 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12350-018-01551-5

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