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H S Weissmann

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PubMed1980

Role of 99mTc-IDA cholescintigraphy in evaluating biliary tract disorders.

Technetium-99m IDA cholescintigraphy has provided a new, noninvasive means of visualizing biliary tract function. It has become the procedure of choice in patients with suspected acute cholecystitis because of its ability to most accurately detect functional obstruction or patency of the cystic duct as opposed to ultrasound's ability to detect only anatomic changes such as the presence of calculi or a thickened gallbladder wall. These latter findings are more important in establishing the diagnosis of chronic cholecystitis where ultrasound shares a position of prime importance with the oral cholecystogram. Tc-99m IDA cholescintigraphy has also been particularly useful in evaluating bile leaks, biliary-enteric anastomosis patency and the post-cholecystectomy patient with recurrent pain. In the patient with cholestasis, ultrasound is usually the procedure of choice since it establishes whether or not ductal dilatation is present and frequently can determine the cause of obstruction. Cholescintigraphy has played an ancillary role in many cases by demonstrating the level of partial obstruction, but it does not have the anatomic resolution to visualize the cause of obstruction. Occasionally, in the evaluation of cholestasis, cholescintigraphy has proven to be the only modality which has identified the presence of acute common duct obstruction or localized intrahepatic ductal obstruction. All in all, Tc-99m IDA cholescintigraphy has had a dramatic impact upon hepatobiliary diagnosis.

Abdominal Injuries↗
PubMed1980

Serendipity in technetium-99m dimethyl iminodiacetic acid cholescintigraphy: diagnosis of nonbiliary disorders in suspected acute cholecystitis.

Technetium-99m dimethyl iminodiacetic acid cholescintigraphy has contributed significantly to the diagnosis of acute and chronic biliary tract disorders. Yet attention should also be focused on the other structures visualized during the blood pool, hepatocyte, renal excretory, and intestinal phases of the study. Nonbiliary pathology was detected in 42 of 294 patients (14.3%) studied for suspected acute cholecystitis. The serendipitous detection of previously unsuspected abnormalities assisted in directing further work-up from suspected biliary disease and towards the real source of the patient's acute problem in 28 cases (9.5%).

Acute Disease↗
PubMed1980

Myocardial visualization on a perfusion lung scan.

Myocardial activity was noted on a lung scan performed following the i.v. administration of Tc-99m macroaggregated albumin. The patient had primary pulmonary hypertension with a right-to-left shunt through a functionally patent foramen ovale.

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PubMed1979

Rapid and accurate diagnosis of acute cholecystitis with 99mTc-HIDA cholescintigraphy.

Technetium-99m dimethyl acetanilide iminodiacetic acid (HIDA) cholescintigraphy was performed on 90 patients with suspected acute cholecystitis. Visualization of the gallbladder established patency of the cystic duct and excluded the diagnosis of acute cholecystitis in 50 of 52 patients. Nonvisualization of the gallbladder with visualization of the common bile duct was diagnostic of acute cholecystitis in 38 patients, all subsequently proven at surgery. The observed accuracy of this procedure is 98% and specificity is 100%. The false negative rate is 5% and false positive rate is zero. Technetium-99m-HIDA has many advantages which make it the procedure of choice in evaluating a patient for suspected acute cholecystitis. It is a rapid, simple, safe examination which provides functional as well as anatomic information about the hepatobiliary system in individuals with a serum bilirubin level up to 8 mg/100 ml.

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PubMed1979

Demonstration of traumatic bile leakage with cholescintigraphy and ultrasonography.

Technetium-99m HIDA cholescintigraphy and ultrasonography are noninvasive, safe, simple procedures that can document the presence, location, and extent of a bile leak. Early detection of posttraumatic or postoperative biliary tract disruption can significantly reduce morbidity and mortality. The possibility of biliary tract disruption should be considered in any patient who has had blunt or penetrating abdominal trauma. In two cases reported, the new hepatobiliary radiotracer 99mTc dimethyliminodiacetic acid (HIDA) was quite useful in detecting such leaks. Sonography was particularly useful in detecting small intra- or perihepatic bile collections which no longer communicate with the biliary tree. An active bile leak at a surgical anastomosis may also be documented by 99mTc-HIDA cholescintigraphy and can yield information of potential prognostic importance. Serial cholescintigraphy is also useful in evaluating the response to medical or surgical treatment.

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