Masterclass in Cardiac Amyloidosis: Disease Spectrum, Diagnosis and Management

Masterclass in Cardiac Amyloidosis: Disease Spectrum, Diagnosis and Management is organized by American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) and will be held from Mar 07 - 09, 2025.

Description:
Led by Program Chair, Saurabh Malhotra, MD, MPH, FASNC, Masterclass features multidisciplinary content that today’s practitioners need to keep current in the rapidly advancing field of cardiac amyloidosis.

Masterclass will cover:

• The pathogenesis of cardiac amyloidosis;
• Diagnostic techniques and pitfalls;
• Management strategies;
• Mechanisms to facilitate early diagnosis; and
• Treatment and management.

The program will feature in-depth sessions led by expert cardiologists, multimodality imagers, hematologists, and neurologists to discuss the disease spectrum, diagnosis, and management of cardiac amyloidosis.

Learning Objectives:
By the end of the program, you should be able to:

• Describe amyloidosis, including specific types, cardiac features, and disease burden.
• Identify barriers to identification and diagnosis of patients suspected of ATTR.
• Summarize the diagnostic evaluation for cardiac amyloidosis including multimodality imaging and laboratory testing and identify prognostic markers.
• Recognize patients at risk for hereditary ATTR (hATTR) and wild-type ATTR (wtATTR).
• Explain the importance of genetic testing in hATTR.
• Discuss the therapeutic landscape and impact on disease burden.
• Define appropriate treatment and management strategies for patients with heart failure.
• Formulate strategies for development of a multidisciplinary care team.
• Evaluate potential community outreach activities to identify at-risk patients.

Agenda:

Amyloidosis for Technologists: Tips and Tricks from Experts - Saturday, March 8 from 1-3pm ET
This session is essential for technologists who are or will be performing radionuclide imaging for cardiac amyloidosis. Leading experts will guide you through an overview of the disease, image acquisition and processing and recommendations to avoid potential pitfalls.

Overview:
As part of this year’s Amyloidosis Masterclass ASNC will offer a focused 2-hour session for technologists titled, Amyloidosis for Technologists: Tips and Tricks from Experts on Saturday, March 8 from 1-3pm ET. This session is essential for technologists who are or will be performing radionuclide imaging for cardiac amyloidosis. This session will provide an overview of the disease, image acquisition and processing and recommendations to avoid potential pitfalls. Join us for an informative session with leading experts.

Objectives:

• Describe the importance of differentiating amyloid transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis from light-chain amyloidosis
• Compare technetium-99m (Tc-99m) HMDP and Tc-99m PYP for diagnosis of cardiac amyloidosis
• Summarize key parameters acquisition and processing of Tc-99m bone avid tracers with NaI and CZT camera systems.
• Identify artifacts and common pitfalls associated with Tc-99m bone avid tracers for detecting cardiac amyloidosis

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