Purpose: To evaluate the amalgamation of scintigraphy and sonography techniques in prognosticating renal disease. Methods: All patients were subjected to while 68 underwent ultrasonography. Ninety-six patients’ imaging data was statistically analyzed including 43 females 53 males. Renal U/S reported anatomical anomaly 94.1% versus 85.4% detected by scintigraphy. There 41 out diagnosed with hydr...

BACKGROUND In patients being considered for lung-resection surgery, quantitative perfusion scintigraphy is used to predict postoperative lung function and guide the determination of lung-resection candidacy. Vibration-response imaging has been proposed as a noninvasive, radiation-free, and simpler method to predict postoperative lung function. We compared vibration-response imaging to quantita...

BACKGROUND Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of death in the world and in Brazil. Myocardial scintigraphy is an important noninvasive method for detecting ischemia in symptomatic patients, but its use in asymptomatic ones or those with atypical symptoms is yet to be defined. OBJECTIVE To verify the presence of major cardiac events in asymptomatic patients or those with atypical sympto...

To determine the effect of exercise myocardial scintigraphy with thallium-201 on diagnostic accuracy and the need for coronary angiography, consecutive patients with a variety of clinical presentations were identified. Clinical summaries, including a detailed history, physical examination, and complete data from a standard treadmill exercise test, were presented to 91 cardiologists. The cardiol...

BACKGROUND Non-invasive cardiological methods have been used for the identification of myocardial damage in Chagas disease. OBJECTIVE To verify whether the rest/stress myocardial perfusion scintigraphy is able to identify early myocardial damage in the indeterminate form of Chagas disease. METHODS Eighteen patients with the indeterminate form of Chagas Disease and the same number of normal ...

(99m)Tc-galactosyl human serum albumin (GSA) scintigraphy is useful to evaluate hepatic function and hepatic functional reserve. A reliable SPECT and CT integrated system is now commercially available. Using this system, we can obtain (99m)Tc-GSA SPECT/CT fused imaging with a small registration error. Therefore, the (99m)Tc-GSA scintigraphy techniques prove more useful in clinical practice than...

In view of the commercial success of integrated PET/CT scanners, there is an increasing interest in comparable SPECT/CT systems. SPECT in combination with CT enables a direct correlation of anatomic information and functional information, resulting in better localization and definition of scintigraphic findings. Besides anatomic referencing, the added value of CT coregistration is based on the ...

AIMS The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of three demographic criteria: gender, age and education level on the patients that perform a scintigraphy. MATERIALS AND METHODS The cross-sectional study was applied to 220 patients to whom it was prescribed a scintigraphy by their treating physician. Of these, 74 were men and 145 women, 10 children and 210 adults. According to their ...

In order to localise neuroendocrine tumours of the foregut type (that is, of the stomach, duodenum, and pancreas), 18 patients were studied prospectively by endoscopic ultrasonography, computed tomography, transabdominal ultrasonography, magnetic resonance imaging, and somatostatin receptor scintigraphy. These 18 patients had a total of 25 primary tumour lesions which were verified histological...

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