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Case Reports
. 2019 Aug 30;12(8):e231793.
doi: 10.1136/bcr-2019-231793.

'Bony' heart

Antonio Mirijello  1 , Serafino Curci  1 , Maria Maddalena D'Errico  1 , Salvatore De Cosmo  1
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Case Reports

'Bony' heart

Antonio Mirijello et al. BMJ Case Rep. .
No abstract available

Keywords: Cardiovascular Medicine; Heart Failure; Radiology (diagnostics).

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Competing interests: None declared.

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(A) 99mTc-hydroxymethylene-diphosphonate bone scintigraphy showing intense myocardial hyper-fixation of the radiotracer consistent with transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis. (B) Particular of the cardiac hyper-fixation at bone scintigraphy. (C) Parasternal long-axis echocardiographic view.
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