Background: The aim of this study to assess the role of 99mTc-HMPAO leucocyte scintigraphy combined with 99mTcMDP bone scintigraphy in the diagnosis of the diabetic foot infection. Methods: 50 diabetic patients with suspected osteomyelitis were included. The HMPAO-Leucocytes/MDP scan was considered to be consistent with osteomyelitis when the HMPAOLeucocytes uptake was concordant with MDP bone ...

UNLABELLED The rate of treatment failure in acute exacerbation of ulcerative colitis (UC) still reaches 20%-30%. Early identification of nonresponders to therapy is important, since intensified or other medical treatment or, ultimately, colectomy should be considered to reduce morbidity. Because 99mTc-hexamethylpropyleneamine oxime (99mTc-HMPAO) white blood cell (WBC) scintigraphy is accurate i...

Regional cerebral perfusion was evaluated by SPECT with technetium 99m hexamethylpropyleneamine oxime (99mTc HMPAO) as a tracer in 21 patients presenting with Parkinson's disease and in 11 normal controls. In the parkinsonian patients, scans were performed both off treatment, and after levodopa, and clinical dopaminergic responsiveness was evaluated. Uptake of HMPAO by the basal ganglia was sig...

Tumor perfusion and oxygenation status have been suggested as factors which may influence treatment outcome in cancer patients. Nuclear medicine assays of tumor perfusion [99mTc-hexamethylpropylenamine oxime (HMPAO)] and tumor hypoxia [123I-iodoazomycin arabinoside (IAZA)] have recently been developed and described. We report on measurements of perfusion and oxygenation status of 27 tumors in 2...

thinking (10) 9 10 10 Verbal fluency (animal) 7 13 13 results of the three assessments are summarized in Table 1. The first neuropsychological assessment revealed that the patient was disoriented as to month, date, and place and was severely impaired in recent memory and verbal fluency. Her remote memory and immediate recall were normal, and her neurological examination was otherwise normal. 99...

OBJECTIVE The authors sought to determine the diagnostic accuracy of 99mTc-HMPAO-SPECT in discriminating between Alzheimer disease (AD) and other dementias. METHODS Articles published between 1985 and 2002 were retrieved systematically from MEDLINE and EMBASE, cross-referencing with personal collections and 13 narrative reviews. Of 301 studies identified, 48 survived exclusion criteria and co...