@article{article_1534280, title={Comparison of Static and Spect Images on Tc-99m-PYP Bone Scintigraphy in the Diagnosis of Cardiac Amyloidosis}, journal={Molecular Oncologic Imaging}, volume={4}, pages={39–45}, year={2025}, DOI={10.71286/moi.1534280}, author={Aydın Akpınar, Emine and Özcan, Pınar Pelin and Koç, Zehra Pınar and Gümüş, Adil and Yavan, Gökçe}, keywords={cardiac amyloidosis, Tc-99m PYP, SPECT, Planar, Imaging, scintigraphy.}, abstract={Amyloidosis is a systemic disease characterized by the extracellular accumulation of amyloid fibrils caused by misfolding of proteins. Cardiac amyloidosis has the worst prognosis of the type of organ involvements. The most common forms of cardiac amyloidosis are immunoglobulin light chain amyloidosis (AL) and transtretin (TTR) amyloidosis. The developing diagnostic methods give the clinician early diagnosis of cardiac amyloidosis. Scintigraphic imaging with Technetium (Tc-99m) labelled biphosponates may faciliate early detection of cardiac involvement and distinguish various forms of cardiac amyloidosis. Bone scintigraphy for evaluation of cardiac amyloidosis especially for ATTR type amyloidosis is one of the most sensitive imaging prosedures in recent years. In our study, we compared the 1st and 3rd hour planar and SPECT imaging to investigate the importance of the 3rd hour and the necessity of SPECT in cardiac amyloidosis (CA) imaging, which is one of the controversial topics from the Nuclear Medicine perspective.}, number={3}, publisher={Mersin University}