Diagnostic role of technitium-99m bone scan in severe COVID-19-associated myositis
Autor: | Barbara Amaker, Jolanta Kowalewska, Thomas R. McCune, Nadeem Inayat, Glen Hookey, Qamar Ahmad |
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Rok vydání: | 2021 |
Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Acute Renal Injury Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) R895-920 Rhabdomyolysis 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging Medical physics. Medical radiology. Nuclear medicine 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Medical imaging medicine Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Myositis COVID Respiratory illness biology medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Magnetic resonance imaging Bone scan medicine.disease biology.protein Creatine kinase Radiology business 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
Zdroj: | Radiology Case Reports, Vol 16, Iss 8, Pp 2123-2128 (2021) |
ISSN: | 1930-0433 |
Popis: | Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), initially appreciated as a respiratory illness, is now known to affect many organs in the human body. Significant data has become available on muscle involvement, with creatinine kinase elevations present in a significant percentage of patients. For those with suspected COVID-19-associated myositis, the imaging modality of choice has been gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging; however, the use of technitium-99 m bone scan has not been previously reported. Here, we report two cases of COVID-19 patients with severe elevation in creatinine kinase who underwent technitium-99 m bone scan. The resulting images showed diffuse symmetrical muscle involvement. Both patients developed acute renal injury due to rhabdomyolysis. To our knowledge, this is the first report of bone scan as a diagnostic imaging modality for COVID-19-associated myositis. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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