Indications and diagnostic yield of endomyocardial biopsies for unexplained cardiomyopathy, a single center experience.
CONCLUSIONS: When following the AHA/ACC/ESC-scientific statement on EMBs, the performance of EMBs had a high diagnostic yield, with acceptable complication rates. However, in patients presenting with an unexplained restricted cardiomyopathy, technetium-labelled bone scanning could offer a non-invasive approach to establishing the diagnosis of ATTR, mitigating the need for EMBs in a subset of patients.
PMID: 30650043 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Acta Cardiologica - Category: Cardiology Tags: Acta Cardiol Source Type: research
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