INTRODUCTION: Thallium is a heavy metal that is used in the manufacture of electronic components, optical lenses, semiconductor materials, alloys, gamma radiation detection equipment, imitation jewelry, artist's paints, low temperature thermometers, and green fireworks. Cigarette smoking is also a source of thallium. After absorption, it gets accumulated in liver and kidney and causes renal and...

Technetium-99m-labeled agents have advantages over thallium-201 in terms of photon statistics, cost and clinical availability. They have been suggested as an alternative to thallium for myocardial perfusion imaging. Teboroxime is a new boronic acid adduct of technetium dioxime (BATO) compound that demonstrates favorable characteristics in preliminary studies. With use of a novel (seated) patien...

Kazuyuki Sakamoto, Johan Eriksson, Seigi Mizuno, Nobuo Ueno, Hiroshi Tochihara and Roger Uhrberg, Core-level photoemission study of thallium adsorbed on a Si(111)-(7×7) surface: Valence state of thallium and the charge state of surface Si atoms, 2006, Physical Review B. Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, (74), 7, 075335. http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.74.075335 Copyright: American Phys...

poisoning. Gradually the patient became drowsy and developed ptosis, glossitis, stomatitis, alopecia, Mees lines, head tremor and nystagmus. His blood thallium level was 40,980
g/ml and urine 608 g/ml. He was treated with hemodialysis, potassium, laxatives and high-dose multivitamins. Gradually his sensorium improved, and ptosis and head tremor disappeared, but he developed grade 3 quadripleg...

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CONTEXT Chronotropic incompetence, an attenuated heart rate response to exercise, is a predictor of all-cause mortality in healthy populations. This association may be independent of exercise-induced myocardial perfusion defects. OBJECTIVE To examine the prognostic significance of chronotropic incompetence in a low-risk cohort of patients referred for treadmill stress testing with thallium im...

OBJECTIVE To determine the diagnostic efficiency of thallium-201 single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in the differentiation of primary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL) from other central nervous system processes in patients with HIV/AIDS. DESIGN/METHODS Over 10 years, 68 thallium-201 SPECT scans were performed ...