PROGNOSTIC VALUE OF TECHNETIUM PYROPHOSPHATE UPTAKE INTENSITY BY NUCLEAR SCINTIGRAPHY IN TRANSTHYRETIN AMYLOIDOSIS

Cardiac Scintigraphy with Thallium-201 and Technetium Pyrophosphate

myocardial Scintigraphy ischemia can deor mc_mstrat_e mfarction. and It  has a higrs after onset of an mfarctl has a higrs after onset of an mfarctln and localizeh sensitivity in the first six to.twenty can belabelled pyrophosphate scan becomes four.  houuseful in the coronary care umt. The positive trction. Since the pyrophosphate scan 99mTc welve to twenty hours after onset of an becomes infa...

Diagnostic value of sacroiliac joint scintigraphy with 99m technetium pyrophosphate in sacroiliitis.

Using a quantitative method, scintigraphy of SI joints was performed by means of 99m technetium pyrophosphate in 21 patients with definite ankylosing spondylitis, in 17 control patients, and in 26 patients 'at risk', i.e. patients with complaints of back pain of the inflammatory type where on clinical grounds there was a possibility of sacroiliitis developing but with normal x-ray findings of t...

Technetium-99m-Pyrophosphate Muscle Scintigraphy in Polymyositis: A Case Report

Received 3/11/2005; revised 5/2/2005; accepted 5/4/2005. For correspondence or reprints contact: Yu-Yu Lu, M.D., Department of Nuclear Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, 160 Section 3, Taichung Harbor Road, Taichung 407, Taiwan. Tel: (886)4-23741349, Fax: (886)4-23741348, E-mail: yuoyuolu@ vghtc.gov.tw Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies represent the largest group of acquired and pot...

Evaluation of Cardiac Mitochondrial Function by a Nuclear Imaging Technique using Technetium-99m-MIBI Uptake Kinetics

Mitochondria play an important role in energy production for the cell. The proper function of a myocardial cell largely depends on the functional capacity of the mitochondria.  Therefore it is necessary to establish a novel and reliable method for a non-invasive assessment of mitochondrial function and metabolism in humans. Although originally designed for evaluating myocardial perfusion, 99mTc...

Bone scintigraphy for early detection of transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis.