Background. Serial myocardial perfusion imaging with "'Tc-sestamibi (MIBI) was used to evaluate infarct risk area and salvage after thrombolysis. The purpose of this investigation was to determine whether changes in MIBI defect size observed after reperfusion may result in part from distortion of regional and global left ventricular geometry. Methods and Results. Twenty-five open-chest dogs wer...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND Thyroid hemiagenesis is a rare anomaly, more commonly seen on the left side (ratio 4:1) and in females (ratio 3:1). The first to describe this anomaly was Handfield Jones in 1852. CASE PRESENTATION We present a 66 year old female patient with right thyroid hemiagenesis, parathyroid adenoma on the side of hemiagenesis and parathyroid hyperplasia on the contralateral si...

A 33 year old female patient presented with history of body and joint pain easy fatiguability unable to perform her routine daily activities since 2 months. She also gave recurrent urinary tract infections, abdomen, loss appetite weight. Examination neck showed no palpable mass. Laboratory data revealed elevated serum calcium levels parathyroid hormone levels. Contrast enhanced computed tomogra...

PURPOSE OF THE REPORT The aims of this study were to compare perfusion and functional parameters between early (ES) and standard (SS) post-stress gated SPECT MIBI, to validate ES against coronary angiography, and to determine whether ES parameters can predict future cardiac events. PATIENTS AND METHODS The sample included 63 patients with normal or mildly impaired left ventricular function an...

Patients receiving diagnostic doses of radiopharmaceuticals become a source of contamination and exposure for those who come in contact with them, such as nuclear medicine technologists, relatives and nurses. Therefore, the measurement of external radiation dose from these patients is necessary. In this study, the dose rates at distances of 10, 50 and 100cm from 70 patients who received d...

PURPOSE To compare the potential application of (99m)Tc-3P-Arg-Gly-Asp ((99m)Tc-3P4-RGD2) scintimammography (SMM) and (99m)Tc-methoxyisobutylisonitrile ((99m)Tc-MIBI) SMM for the differentiation of malignant from benign breast lesions. METHOD Thirty-six patients with breast masses on physical examination and/or suspicious mammography results that required fine needle aspiration cytology biops...