Microvascular right-to-left pulmonary shunt demonstrated by a radionuclide method

Journal Article · Tue Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1991 · Journal of Nuclear Medicine; (USA)

OSTI ID:6009714

Kjoller, E; Pedersen, F; Svendsen, T L; Sorensen, S S ^[1]

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1. Rigshospitalet University Hospital, Copenhagen (Denmark)

A 37-yr-old man with angiolymphoid hyperplasia (Kimura's syndrome), who had been treated unsuccessfully for suspected asthma, was investigated due to a decrease in arterial oxygen saturation (86%). Right heart catheterization and angiography of the pulmonary artery failed to demonstrate any right-to-left shunts. However, simultaneous scintigraphy over the lungs, kidneys, and head after injection of 150 MBq technetium-99m-labeled macroaggregated albumin i.v. and inhalation of 150 MBq krypton-81m demonstrated a right-to-left shunt in the lungs probably caused by precapillary pulmonary arteriovenous shunts.

• OSTI ID: 6009714
• Journal Information: Journal of Nuclear Medicine; (USA), Journal Name: Journal of Nuclear Medicine; (USA) Vol. 32:1; ISSN 0161-5505; ISSN JNMEA
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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62 RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE
ALBUMINS
ANIMALS
BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
BODY
BODY AREAS
COUNTING TECHNIQUES
DIAGNOSIS
DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES
DISEASES
ELECTRON CAPTURE RADIOISOTOPES
EVEN-ODD NUCLEI
HEAD
HOURS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI
ISOMERIC NUCLEI
ISOMERIC TRANSITION ISOTOPES
ISOTOPES
KIDNEYS
KRYPTON 81
KRYPTON ISOTOPES
LUNGS
MAMMALS
MAN
NUCLEI
ODD-EVEN NUCLEI
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
ORGANS
PATIENTS
PRIMATES
PROTEINS
RADIOISOTOPE SCANNING
RADIOISOTOPES
RESPIRATORY SYSTEM
RESPIRATORY SYSTEM DISEASES
SCINTISCANNING
SECONDS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
TECHNETIUM 99
TECHNETIUM ISOTOPES
VERTEBRATES
YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES