[Myocardial scintigraphy with technetium-99m diphosphonate following radiation therapy of the thoracic area (author's transl)].
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The findings of the scintigraphy of the myocardium with Technetium-99m-diphosphonate (Tc-99m-DP) of 45 patients with nearly exclusively ischaemic heart disease were compared with those of the selective coronary angiography and those of the selective coronary perfusion scintigraphy. 12 patients exhibited an enlargement of the activity in the myocardium (positive scintigramme). These cases were particularly described in this paper. The levocardiogramme proved disturbances of the motility of the walls in 6 patients. In 5 patients a positive scintigramme of the myocardium was registered. Therefore, the scintigraphy of the myocardium with Tc-99m-DP is regarded as a supplementing, non-invasive method for the diagnosis of more pronounced disturbances of the motility of the heart wall. Furthermore, positive scintigrammes of the myocardium were registered in angina pectoris, condition after aorto-coronary bypass-operation, cardiomyopathy and myocarditis. Since the scintigraphy of the myocardium with Tc-99m-DP is a sensitive method for the poor of cell lesions of the myocardium, it allows a judgment of the floridity of the myocardial process. From this among other results that the scintigraphy of the myocardium may be a help for the indication to the aorto-coronary bypass operation. Clear relations between the scintigraphy of the myocardium, the number of the coronary-sclerotically changed heart vessels and the development of stenosation are not to be established. An immediate connection between the size of the disturbance of the perfusion and the results of the scintigraphy of the myocardium is also not to be recognized.
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The endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreaticography, angiography and scintigraphy have a different value in the diagnostics of chronic pancreatitis and carcinoma of the pancreas. The scintigraphy of pancreas has the lowest value. It should not alone be the basis for making the diagnosis or planning the treatment. In chronic pancreatitis the endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreaticography has precedence of angiography. The chronic pancreatitis may angiographically be recognised only in the late phase. However, the angiography can give valuable references to the planning of the operation. At a suspicion of the pancreas malignoma the endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreaticography and the angiography have nearly the same value in the plan of diagnostics and they both should be performed.
The permeability of the large arteries may be analysed by different methods. It is of different size in the individual arteries and is increased by hypoxia, by hypertension and by mediators. Thus increasedly atherogenic substances may enter the wall of the vessel.
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Prostaglandin (PG)E2 tends to increase the permeability to labeled albumin of the arterial walls of rabbits. The blood pressure decreases after administration of PGE2. The increase in permeability is probably due to direct effects of prostaglandin upon the endothelium, perhaps to an increase of cytopempsis or formation of leaks in the integrity of the cell layer.
55 patients with treated hyperthyroidism (thyreostatics) underwent a T3 suppression test and a TRH stimulation test. 60% of the patients had a positive and 40% a negative T3 suppression test. While patients with a positive T3 suppression test always showed a positive TRH test, the behaviour of the TRH test in negative suppression test was different (68.2% positive, 31.8% negative). These discrepant findings are to be explained from the establishment of different phases of regulation. In negative TRH test the concentrations of hormones were significantly higher. Increased basal TSH values are an expression of an overtreatment with thyreostatics. In positive suppression test and TRH test after a therapy lasting at least one year the medication can be stopped. In negative suppression test, however, the therapy should be changed. The TRH test allows only evidence about the quality of the regulation of therapy. Finally it can be established that the two tests on account of their different working points in the regulatory system are necessary and not changeable between each other.
On the basis of general haematological, clinicochemical, cytomorphological, cytochemical and nuclearmedical investigations the anaemia of chronic haemodialysis can be considered as a renal anaemia modified by a permanent dialysis. It is less characterized by lack of erythropoietin, but more by a strong lack of iron, moderate haemolysis and slight deficiency of folic acid. After gradual diagnostics the substitution treatment with iron is absolutely necessary, medication of folic acid should be attempted. A permanent therapy with 80-120 mg of iron weekly administered parenterally can be successfully performed and 10-15 mg of folic acid daily, which will markedly lower the rate of transfusion.
Labeled albumin, which was administered intravenously, was detected, with the use of a scintillation counter, in the aortic wall of rabbits. Relative to weight, the permeability index was highest in the aortic arch and abdominal aorta and lowest in the medial thoracic aorta. Angiotensin II and various mediators were found to increase the permeability of the aortic wall.
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