Infectious diseases are common world wide, especially in developing countries. Some of these are relatively easy to diagnose at the bedside on the clinical picture alone (e.g. Measles, mumps, chicken pox). Some infections produce localising signs (e.g. Neck stiffness in meningitis, pain and tenderness over mastoids, sinuses, bone and joints, pleurisy, pneumonia, gall bladder and appendix), whic...

1Nuclear Medicine Unit, Department of Medical-Surgical Sciences and Translational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Ospedale S. Andrea, “Sapienza” University, Via di Grottarossa 1035, 00189 Roma, Italy 2Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, University Medical Center Groningen University of Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, 9700 RB Groningen, Netherlands 3Nuclear Medicine Depa...

Swine flue is a highly contagious acute respiratory disease caused by a subtype of influenza A virus. Herein we present three patients with H1N1 infection complicated with pulmonary thromboembolism. The patients had chest pain and unexplained dyspnea. Imaging studies showed bilateral hilar predominance. Computed tomographic angiography confirmed bilateral thromboembolism (an unusual presentatio...

  Introduction: Gallium-67 citrate has been known as a good infection agent in nuclear medicine for decades. In this work the value of 67Ga-citrate has been investigated in infected animal models using SPECT imaging at optimized/standardized conditions. Methods: The bacterial (Staphylococcus aureus; S.a. and Escherichia coli; E.c.) and fungal (<em...