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Table 1 Study characteristics

From: Diagnostic performance of CMR, SPECT, and PET imaging for the detection of cardiac amyloidosis: a meta-analysis

References

Year of publication

No. of participants

Men (%)

Age (SD or IQR)

Population

Study design

Reference test

Modalities

Image analysis

Tracers

Abulizi et al. [44]

2019

27

70

70 (12)

Known or suspected CA

Prospective

Myocardial histology

PET

Semiquantitative

18F-NaF

Aquaro et al. [45]

2014

79

61

69 (10)

Known CA

Prospective

Myocardial histology electrocardiographic criteria

CMR

Qualitative

NA

Asif et al. [46]

2020

133

53

76 (12)

Suspected CA

Retrospective

Myocardial histology

SPECT

Semiquantitative

99mTc-PYP

Awaya et al. [47]

2020

10

70

61 (12)

Suspected CA

Prospective

Myocardial histology

SPECT

Qualitative

99mTc-aprotinin

Baggiano et al. [48]

2020

436

66

67 (13)

Suspected CA

Prospective

Myocardial histology

CMR

Qualitative

NA

Baroni et al. [49]

2018

21

74

58 (12)

Suspected CA

Prospective

Myocardial histology

CMR

Qualitative

NA

Bellevre et al. [50]

2020

30

53

84 (7)

Suspected CA

Retrospective

Myocardial histology

SPECT

Semiquantitative

99mTc-HMDP

Bhatti et al. [51]

2016

126

64

63 (10)

Suspected CA

Retrospective

Myocardial histology

CMR

Qualitative

NA

Cappelli et al. [52]

2019

85

79

77 (9)

Suspected CA

Retrospective

Myocardial histology

SPECT

Semiquantitative

99mTc-HMDP

Ezawa et al. [53]

2018

18

61

51 (15)

Known or suspected CA

Prospective

Myocardial histology

PET

Qualitative

11C-PIB

Flaherty et al. [54]

2020

43

7

77 (9)

Suspected CA

Prospective

Myocardial histology

SPECT

Quantitative

99mTc-PYP

Gallini et al. [55]

2019

76

80

77 (8)

Known or suspected CA

Retrospective

Myocardial histology

SPECT

Semiquantitative

99mTc-HMDP

Gillmore et al. [56]

2016

374

NR

NR

Known or suspected CA

Prospective

Myocardial histology and genetic findings

SPECT

Qualitative

99mTc-DPD

Karamitsos et al. [57]

2013

53

66

62 (11)

Known or suspected CA

Prospective

Myocardial histology

CMR

Qualitative

NA

Kircher et al. [58]

2019

21

64

65 (14)

Suspected CA

Prospective

Myocardial histology

CMR

Qualitative

NA

Lee et al. [59]

2015

19

46

65 (10)

Suspected CA

Prospective

Myocardial histology

CMR

Qualitative

NA

Malka et al. [38]

2020

308

75

73 (8)

Known CA and controls

Retrospective

Myocardial histology

SPECT

Semiquantitative

99mTc-HMDP

Martineau et al. [60]

2019

15

80

69 (11)

CA

Retrospective

Myocardial histology

PET

Qualitative

18F-NaF

Masri et al. [61]

2020

233

69

77 (14)

Suspected CA

Prospective

Diffuse myocardial uptake

SPECT

Semiquantitative

99mTc-PYP

Minamimoto et al. [16]

2020

9

67

64 (14)

Suspected CA

Prospective

Myocardial histology

SPECT

Qualitative

99mTc-aprotinin

Moore et al. [62]

2017

21

91

NR

Suspected CA

Prospective

Myocardial histology

SPECT

Semiquantitative

99mTc-DPD

Papantoniou et al. [63]

2015

12

67

69 (12)

Suspected CA

Prospective

Myocardial histology

SPECT

Semiquantitative

99mTc-PYP

Papathanasiou et al. [42]

2020

17

88

71 (9)

Known CA and controls

Retrospective

Myocardial histology

PET

Qualitative

18F-flutemetamol

Poterucha et al. [64]

2020

91

84

72 (9)

Suspected CA

Retrospective

Myocardial histology

SPECT

Qualitative

99mTc-PYP

Rapezzi et al. [65]

2011

63

62

53 (41–66)

Known or suspected CA

Prospective

Myocardial histology

SPECT

Qualitative

99mTc-DPD

Régis et al. [66]

2020

40

73

75 (10)

Suspected CA

Retrospective

H/CL ratio

SPECT

Qualitative

99mTc-PYP

Rosengren et al. [41]

2020

51

73

69 (13)

Known and suspected CA

Prospective

Myocardial histology

PET

Qualitative

11C-PIB

Sperry et al. [37]

2020

100

75

77 (72–82)

Suspected CA

Retrospective

Semiquantitative grade and H/CL ratio

SPECT

Semiquantitative

99mTc-PYP

White et al. [67]

2014

25

58

62 (13)

Suspected CA

Prospective

Myocardial histology

CMR

Semiquantitative

NA

Wollenweber et al. [39]

2020

32

722

73 (11)

Suspected CA

Prospective

Myocardial histology

SPECT

Qualitative

99mTc-DPD

Zhang et al. [40]

2020

17

94

77 (8)

Known and suspected CA

Prospective

Myocardial histology

PET

Qualitative

18F-NaF

  1. CA cardiac amyloid, SD standard deviation, IQR interquartile range, CMR cardiac magnetic resonance, SPECT single photon emission computed tomography, PET positron emission tomography, NR not reported, NA not applicable