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Current Status of Radionuclide Imaging of Transthyretin Cardiac Amyloidosis

  • Anam Waheed
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    Division of Cardiovascular Imaging, Department of Radiology, Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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  • Sharmila Dorbala
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    Corresponding author. Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115.
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    Division of Cardiovascular Imaging, Department of Radiology, Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA

    Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA

    Cardiac Amyloidosis Program, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Published:February 23, 2023DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccl.2023.01.010

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