We present a 55-year old male patient who was subjected to whole body skeletal scintigraphy for metastatic work up of urinary bladder cancer. Whole body 99mTc-methylene diphosphonate (MDP) skeletal scintigraphy was performed. That revealed no skeletal metastasis in the entire body skeleton and normally visualized left kidney with empty right renal fossa. Additionally tracer activity ...

Background: Acute organophosphate poisoning (AOPP) is related to several clinical complications that may be fatal. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of demographic, clinical and laboratory findings on AOPP outcome. Methods: In this retrospective cross-sectional study, medical records of all patients with AOPP admitted to Imam Reza Hospital, Mashhad, Iran, were reviewed from Jan...

Health technology Laboratory screening for congenital thrombophilic alterations in women who wished to start oral contraceptive (OC) treatment. At the first screening, the following tests were carried out on blood taken from the subjects. (1) Activated protein C resistance (APCR), using the in-house clotting method proposed by de Ronde and Bertina. The inter-assay coefficient of variation (CV) ...

Health technology Laboratory screening for congenital thrombophilic alterations in women who wished to start oral contraceptive (OC) treatment. At the first screening, the following tests were carried out on blood taken from the subjects. (1) Activated protein C resistance (APCR), using the in-house clotting method proposed by de Ronde and Bertina. The inter-assay coefficient of variation (CV) ...

Arrhythmogenesis has been increasingly linked to cardiac ryanodine receptor (RyR) dysfunction. However, the mechanistic relationship between abnormal RyR function and arrhythmogenesis in the heart is not clear. We hypothesize that, under abnormal RyR conditions, triggered activity will be caused by spontaneous calcium release (SCR) events that depend on transmural heterogeneities of calcium han...

objective: to predict hospital stay by using various clinical parameters at admission.patients and methods: this prospective observational study was conducted over a period of one year (jan – dec 2010) in a tertiary level teaching hospital in north india. out of 344 neonates admitted, 41 left against medical advice and were excluded. at time of admission, initial vital signs were noted along wi...

bone scanning using the 99mtc-phosphate analogs is an established diagnostic modality and a commonly requested radioisotope examination for a variety of pathologies involving the skeleton, such as osteomyelitis, bony metastases, and occult fractures. the bone scan is one of the most commonly requested procedure in most nuclear medicine department. the images show areas of increased and decrease...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Children with optic nerve hypoplasia (ONH) have visual impairment and may have hypopituitarism and developmental delay. Children with ONH have also been reported to have abnormal sleep-wake cycles. We assessed the incidence and nature of sleep-wake abnormalities in children with ONH. METHODS Rest-activity patterns were assessed in 23 children with ONH using actigraphy, which i...