Technetium Tc 99m Pyrophosphate
"Technetium Tc 99m Pyrophosphate" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A radionuclide imaging agent used primarily in scintigraphy or tomography of the heart to evaluate the extent of the necrotic myocardial process. It has also been used in noninvasive tests for the distribution of organ involvement in different types of amyloidosis and for the evaluation of muscle necrosis in the extremities.
| Descriptor ID |
D016698
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D01.029.260.700.675.374.775.150.900 D01.695.625.675.650.775.150.900 D01.925.925
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| Concept/Terms |
Technetium Tc 99m Pyrophosphate- Technetium Tc 99m Pyrophosphate
- Tc-PYP
- Tc PYP
- Tc 99m-Pyrophosphate
- Tc 99m Pyrophosphate
- 99mTc-Pyrophosphate
- 99mTc Pyrophosphate
- Diphosphoric Acid, Technetium Salt
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Myocardial technetium-99m-pyrophosphate scintigraphy and echocardiography in the diagnosis of cardiac amyloidosis. Acta Cardiol. 1992; 47(4):391-401.
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Evaluation of soft tissue injury by Tc-99m bone agent scintigraphy. Clin Nucl Med. 1991 May; 16(5):309-14.