Lung resection is the mainstay of treatment in patients with early stage non-small cell lung cancer. However, lung cancer patients often suffer from comorbidities and the respiratory reserve should be carefully evaluated preoperatively in order to avoid postoperative complications. Forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) is considered to be an index that depicts the patient’s respiratory ef...

inflammatory responses and innate immunologic reactions play an important role in the respiratory system. ex vivo lung perfusion (evlp) is considered a novel method in the evaluation and reconditioning of donor lungs prior to transplantation. however, evlp’s effect on inflammatory and metabolic markers of human lung tissue is unknown. this study investigated how the performance of evlp on brain...

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The present paper aims at reviewing our present knowledge on the diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism with a particular emphasis on clinically suspected outpatients. The various contemporary diagnostic tools (including clinical probability assessment, fibrin D-Dimer measurement, venous compression ultrasonography, ventilation/perfusion lung scintigraphy, helical CT scan, and...

introduction: asymptomatic diabetic patients are at increased risk of cardiovascular complications. myocardial perfusion scan may be effective in risk evaluation in this population. methods: 106 asymptomatic diabetic patients (age: min: 37, max: 82, mean: 57.73±8.88), including 56 females (52.8%) and 50 males (47.2%) were enrolled in the study. myocardial perfusion scintigraphy was performed by...

OBJECTIVES We sought to determine whether lung uptake of technetium-99m (99mTc)-based myocardial perfusion tracers predicts cardiac events. BACKGROUND Increased lung uptake of thallium-201 during myocardial perfusion scintigraphy can predict important clinical outcomes. It is unclear whether lung uptake of 99mTc-based myocardial perfusion tracers can be used in a similar way. METHODS Stress...

BACKGROUND Modern diagnostic strategy in coronary artery disease (CAD) makes it necessary not only to establish a diagnosis but also to assess the cardiovascular risk. It is not clear which strategy should be followed in the case of women with positive ECG stress test results to assess prognosis and start appropriate diagnostics and treatment.The aim of the study was to assess the prognostic va...

Contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) is an emerging technique to evaluate tissue perfusion. Promising results have been obtained in the evaluation of renal perfusion in health and disease, both in human and veterinary medicine. Renal scintigraphy using 99mTc-Mercaptoacetyltriglycine (MAG3) is another non-invasive technique that can be used to evaluate renal perfusion. However, no data are availa...

Received 9/8/2002; accepted 10/1/2002. For correspondence or reprints contact: Nan-Jing Peng, M.D., Department of Nuclear Medicine, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital. 386 Ta-Chung 1st Road, Kaohsiung 813, Taiwan, ROC. Tel: (886)7-3422121 ext. 6418, Fax: (886)7-3461179, E-mail: [email protected] Background: The scintigraphic findings of triple-vessel coronary artery disease (TVD) may va...