pyrophosphate and Pericardial-Effusion

In the patient with cardiac trauma, radionuclide imaging may provide important information about cardiac mechanical function, vascular anatomy and integrity, myocardial perfusion, and myocardial metabolism. Studies require only minimal patient cooperation, can be performed relatively rapidly and often at the bedside, and may be repeated at frequent intervals for serial evaluations. These studies provide valuable adjunctive knowledge when selected and interpreted with knowledge of the mechanism of injury, timing of the examination relative to the time of injury, and most likely differential diagnoses.

Topics: Aged; Contusions; Diagnosis, Differential; Diphosphates; Electric Injuries; Female; Heart Aneurysm; Heart Injuries; Heart Neoplasms; Humans; Male; Methods; Middle Aged; Myocardial Infarction; Myxoma; Pericardial Effusion; Technetium; Technetium Tc 99m Pyrophosphate; Tomography, Emission-Computed; Tricuspid Valve Insufficiency; Wounds, Gunshot

Topics: Aged; Carcinoma, Bronchogenic; Diphosphates; Humans; Lung Neoplasms; Male; Pericardial Effusion; Radionuclide Imaging; Technetium; Technetium Tc 99m Pyrophosphate

Topics: Cholesterol; Diphosphates; Humans; Pericardial Effusion; Pericarditis; Radionuclide Imaging; Technetium