| GAMMA CAMERA APPLICATIONS |
Cardiac Applications:
- Coronary Artery Disease
- Measure Effectiveness of Bypass Surgery
- Measure Effectiveness of Therapy for Heart Failure
- Detect Heart Transplant Rejection
- Select Patients for Bypass or Angioplasty
- Identify Surgical Patients at High Risk for
- Heart Attacks
- Identify Right Heart Failure
- Measure Chemotherapy Cardiac Toxicity
- Evaluate Valvular Heart Disease
- Identify Shunts and Quantify Them
- Early Diagnosis and Localization of Acute Heart Attacks Before Enzyme Changes
Pulmonary Applications:
- Diagnose Pulmonary Emboli
- Detect Pulmonary Complications of AIDS
- Quantify Lung Ventilation and Perfusion
- Detect Lung Transplant Rejection
- Detect Inhalation Injury in Burn Patients
- Lung perfusion status in patients with congenital hear disease
- FEV1 calculation to predict postop status in patients posted for lung surgeries
Neurologic Applications:
- Stroke
- Alzheimer's Disease
- Demonstrate Changes in AIDS Dementia
- Evaluate Patients for Carotid Surgery
- Localize Seizure Foci especially temporal lobe epilepsy
- Evaluate Post Concussion Syndrome
- Diagnose Multi-Infarct Dementia, evaluate Pyschiatric diseases
- Confirm brain death
Oncologic Applications:
- Tumor Localization
- Tumor Staging
- Identify Metastatic Sites
- Judge Response to Therapy
- Relieve Bone Pain Caused by Cancer
Orthopedic Applications:
- Identify bone malignancy, Occult Bone Trauma (Sports Injuries)
- Diagnose Osteomyelitis versus cellulitis
- Evaluate Arthritic Changes and Extent, Inflammatory polyarthropathy (active disease)
- Localize Sites for Tumor Biopsy, Avascular necrosis, Prosthesis evaluation
- Measure Extent of Certain Tumors
- Identify Bone Infarcts in Sickle Cell Disease
Renal Applications:
- Detect Urinary Tract Obstruction, urine leak, ectopic kidneys
- Diagnose Renovascular Hypertension
- Measure Differential Renal Function
- Detect Renal Transplant complications
- Detect Pyelonephritis
- Detect Renal Scars
Thyroid & Endocrine Applications:
- Diagnose Graves disease, Toxic MNG, Autonomous toxic nodule
- Thyroiditis, Solitary toxic nodule
- Low dose I 131 therapy to treat Hyperthyroidism
- Diagnose Neuroendocrine tumours - MIBG scan, Indium Octreotide scan
GIT Applications:
- Salivary dysfunctions, Gastric-emptying study - to detect diabetic gastroparesis etc.
- Detect Acute Cholecystitis, bile leak in post-liver transplants
- Chronic Biliary Tract Dysfunction, Gall bladder dyskinesia
- Detect Acute Gastrointestinal Bleeding
- Detect Testicular Torsion
- Detect Occult Infections
Other Applications:
- Sentinel node imaging & intraoperative localization - Ca Oral cavity,
Gynaeocological malignancy, Lymph node mets in Ca thyroid, Ca Penis,
Melanoma, Squamous cell Ca of scalp etc.
- Lymphoscintigraphy - To evaluate lymphatic dysfunction, obstruction
- Dacryoscintigraphy - to detect Tear duct patency
- Heat Denatured RBC scintigraphy - To look for accessory spleen
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