{"id":37333,"date":"2016-08-25T13:24:33","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T17:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/?p=37333"},"modified":"2016-08-25T16:17:53","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T20:17:53","slug":"amyloid-related-heart-failure-now-detectable-with-imaging-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2016\/08\/25\/amyloid-related-heart-failure-now-detectable-with-imaging-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Amyloid-Related Heart Failure Now Detectable with Imaging Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A type of heart failure caused by a build-up of amyloid can be accurately diagnosed and prognosticated with an imaging technique, eliminating the need for a biopsy, according to a multicenter study in which BUSM researchers participated. The findings of the study \u201cMulticenter Study of Planar Technetium 99m Pyrophosphate Cardiac Imaging: Predicting Survival in Patients with ATTR Cardiac Amyloidosis?\u201d were published in <em>JAMA Cardiology<\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_37343\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37343\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2016\/08\/ruberg-and-berk-2-e1472156183663.jpg\" alt=\"L to r: Ruberg, Berk\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37343\" height=\"271\" width=\"350\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37343\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">L to r: Frederick Ruberg,\u00a0 John Berk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Associate Professor in the Division of Cariovascular Medicine and Radiology Frederick L. Ruberg, MD and Associate Professor in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep and Critical Care Medicine John L Berk, MD were part of the team led by researchers at Columbia University Medical Center. The technique may also detect the condition\u2014called transthyretin-related cardiac amyloidosis (ATTR-CA)\u2014before it progresses to advanced heart failure. ATTR-CA is one of many types of amyloidosis, a condition in which a protein breaks down and forms fibrils that deposit in organs and tissues, eventually causing the organs to fail. In ATTR-CA, the transthyretin protein breaks down and forms amyloid fibrils, which mainly accumulate in the heart, disrupting its function. Different types of amyloidosis require different treatments, so obtaining an accurate diagnosis is critical.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about the <a href=\"http:\/\/cardiology.jamanetwork.com\/article.aspx?articleid=2546034\">study<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BU researchers participate in study that reveals once believed rare, transthyretin-related cardiac amyloidosis is an increasingly recognized cause of heart failure. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[91,90],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37333"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37333"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37345,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37333\/revisions\/37345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}