s | 97 Specifically, we examined factors influencing female North Korean refugees’ quality of life. The sample was comprised 172 female North Korean refugees. Participants completed the checklist for Health Condition, the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist-civilian version (PLC-C; Weathers et al., 1993), the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support, Zimet et al., 1988), and the K...

During past 3 decades, nuclear medicine has flourished as vibrant and independent medical specialty in Iran. Since that time, more than 200 nuclear physicians have been trained and now practicing in nearly 158 centers throughout the country. In the same period, Tc-99m generators and variety of cold kits for conventional nuclear medicine were locally produced for the first time. Local production...

SUMMARY After a peripheral injection of Technetium-99m, an Anger scintillation camera placed over the precordium of nine patients without and three patients with hemodynamic abnormalities was used to record in rapid sequence the flow of the injected material through the central circulatory system. After the data were processed as sequential frames of digitized spatial matrices, the position of ...

Five cases of hepatic haemangioma are described, and a sixth (previously reported) is reviewed. Clinical features, investigation, and management are described to show the great variability of the complications and prognosis. Five children presented in the first 10 weeks of life with hepatomegaly; 4 developed congestive cardiac failure; 3 had cutaneous haemangiomata. One child presented at age 4...

INTRODUCTION Tumour-associated urokinase plasminogen activator (uPA) is a critical marker of invasion and metastasis, and it is recognised as having strong prognostic relevance as well as being a therapeutic target. The specific uPA inhibitor plasminogen activator inhibitor type-2 (PAI-2, SerpinB2) specifically targets cell bound uPA and is internalised. Furthermore, preclinical studies have es...

High prevalence of tuberculosis increases the odds for nonmalignant solitary pulmonary nodules (SPNs). Positron emission tomography (PET) using (18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose is the method of choice for the identification of malignant SPNs requiring curative surgery. However, PET is not widely available. Technetium-99m methoxy isobutyl isonitrile (MIBI) is inexpensive, widely available and shows incr...

OBJECTIVES We sought to determine whether right ventricular (RV) perfusion imaging with technetium99m (Tc-99m) sestamibi or tetrofosmin single-photon emission computed tomography has diagnostic benefit for RV-originated ventricular tachyarrhythmias (RVT). BACKGROUND Identification of RV abnormalities is clinically important to establish RVT etiology. METHODS Forty-seven patients with RVT (23 wi...

Diabetes mellitus (DM) frequently affects the nervous system [1]. This holds true both for the peripheral and for the autonomic nervous system [2]. Diabetic polyneuropathy (or distal symmetrical polyneuropathy [DPN] or, simply, peripheral neuropathy) is the most common manifestation of DM in the nervous system [3, 4]. Of the autonomic nervous system, gastrointestinal autonomic neuropathy [5] an...

Objectives. We sought to assess the feasibility and accuracy of myocardial contrast echocardiography (MCE) using standard imaging approaches for the detection of perfusion defects in patients who had a myocardial infarction (MI). Background. Myocardial contrast echocardiography may be more versatile than perfusion scintigraphy for identifying the presence and extent of perfusion defects after M...

To determine whether cardiac transplant rejection can be detected noninvasively with indium-11l (" 'In)-labeled lymphocytes, we studied 11 dogs with thoracic heterotopic cardiac transplants without immunosuppression and five dogs with transplants treated with cyclosporine (10 mg/kg/day) and prednisone (1 mg/kg/day). All were evaluated sequentially with gamma scintigraphy after administration of...