Myocardial uptake of Tc-99m macroaggregated albumin during perfusion lung scanning
| Autor: | Candan Coskun, Ridvan Ucar, Hakan Bahadir, Tarik Basoglu, Irem Bernay, Murathan Sahin |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Ondokuz Mayıs Üniversitesi |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 1998 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Coronary Vessel Anomalies Tc-99m-MAA Serum albumin Technetium Tc 99m Aggregated Albumin extrapulmonary uptake Pulmonary Artery Scintigraphy Heart Septal Defects Atrial Left coronary artery Internal medicine medicine.artery Humans Medicine Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Radionuclide Imaging Lung Ultrasonography Heart septal defect biology medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Heart General Medicine lung scanning medicine.disease Pulmonary embolism medicine.anatomical_structure biology.protein Cardiology Radiology Radiopharmaceuticals Pulmonary Embolism business Perfusion |
| Popis: | The authors present a case of extrapulmonary Tc-99m macroaggregated albumin uptake in a patient with reversed atrial septal defect and cleft lip. Perfusion lung scanning was performed to rule out pulmonary embolism because of dyspnea, cyanosis, and tachy-arrhythmia. Besides minimal systemic activity, significant myocardial uptake of the tracer was observed. Coronary angiography could not be performed because of the severely altered general condition of the patient. It was postulated that this was most probably due to an anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary trunk. |
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