Refresher Courses: Collaborative Learning - Jointly organised by the ECR Scientific Subcommittees Cardiac and Hybrid, Molecular and Translational Imaging

RC 600b - Cardiac amyloidosis imaging

March 4, 16:30 - 17:30 CET

5 min
Chairpersons' introduction
15 min
Epidemiology, diagnosis, and therapy of amyloidosis: the clinical perspective
  1. To describe the systemic amyloidosis disease spectrum.
  2. To summarise the treatment approaches in amyloidosis.
  3. To discuss the challenges in diagnosis and patient management.
15 min
The role of magnetic resonance in the diagnosis of cardiac amyloidosis
  1. To describe the major cardiac magnetic resonance anomalies encountered in patients with cardiac amyloidosis.
  2. To distinguish between the two main types of cardiac amyloidosis (amyloid light chain [AL] and transthyretin [ATTR]).
  3. To understand the role of cardiac MR in the follow-up of patients.
15 min
The role of nuclear medicine in amyloidosis
  1. To describe which radiopharmaceuticals are used for ATTR cardiac amyloidosis.
  2. To examine and grade bone-avid tracer scans.
  3. To differentiate ATTR from AL in suspected cardiac amyloidosis.
10 min
Panel discussion: The imaging algorithm for cardiac amyloidosis: what, when and why