Thallium-201 was used to image a patient with a pancreatic transplant. Incomplete visualization of the graft on the 201Tl scan, compared to CT, led to the diagnosis of segmental necrosis of the tail of the graft. Due to the low background and favorable target-to-non-target ratio, 201Tl pancreas scintigraphy may be useful in the follow-up of pancreatic transplants.

OBJECTIVES This study characterizes the histology of myocardium predicted to be hibernating using three different imaging techniques to explain the discordance among them. BACKGROUND Both radionuclide and functional imaging techniques were used to assess myocardial hibernation. The former have high sensitivity and the latter high specificity for predicting functional recovery. METHODS Ninet...

a D t t H w l c T t l t a e 9 2 r t c A i “ e 9 n a s t s r m m p i Thallium-201 has several virtues as a myocardial perfusion agent. It is one of the best of the soluble agents for measuring regional myocardial perfusion, because it has a blood clearance half-time of 30 s and a first pass extraction in the myocardium of 88% (1) (compared with the 1-min blood clearance half-time [2] and 50% to ...

The use of superdelayed thallium-201 single photon emission computed tomography (201Tl SPECT) for differentiating malignant gliomas from cerebral metastases was investigated in 23 patients (7 with meningioma, 6 with glioma, 7 with cerebral metastasis, 1 with each of neurinoma, abscess, and necrosis). 4 mCi of 201Tl was injected intravenously, and gamma camera scans were performed after 10 minut...

Mailing address: Pedro Silvio Farsky Rua Caravelas, 423 04012-090 São Paulo, SP Brazil E-mail: [email protected] Sent for publishing on: 06/23/2004 Accepted on: 02/23/2005 The benefit of myocardial revascularization (RM) surgery was first demonstrated in patients with severe left ventricular dysfunction with CASS registration1. A longer survival, in five years, was verified in patients with le...

The quantitative relations between serum creatine kinase-MB isoenzyme (CK-MB) release and the final infarct size estimated by myocardial emission computed tomography with thallium-201 was assessed in 37 patients with a first acute transmural myocardial infarction who underwent intracoronary thrombolysis using urokinase 4.6 +/- 1.9 hours after the onset of symptoms. Serial CK-MB determinations w...

The use of a mobile gamma camera with thallium 201 myocardial imaging is described to exclude myocardial infarction in a patient admitted to the coronary care unit in shock and with clinical, enzyme, and ECG changes consistent with infarction. The patient suffered from acute aortic dissection associated with congenital coarctation of the aorta. The myocardial scan excluded transmural myocardial...