MUSCLE PERFUSION WITH TECHNETIUM-MIBI IN LOWER-EXTREMITY PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASES

There have been several methods utilized in the diagnosis or assessment of medical or surgical treatments of peripheral arterial diseases. In this study, the diagnostic value of a new tracer: Tc-99m-methoxy-isobutyl-isonitrile (MIBI) has been demonstrated in patients with leg claudication. We successively performed muscle perfusion scans in 6 normals and 18 patients with claudication pain during rest and after exercise on the same day. Muscle perfusion abnormalities in all patients were consistent with the defects in the arteries of the affected limbs. The results show that this is a simple and accurate diagnostic procedure and superior to those that have been previously used

Childhood-onset uveitis in Behcet disease: A descriptive study of 36 cases

PURPOSE: To describe the demographic and clinical features, complications, treatment, and visual results in patients with childhood-onset Behcet uveitis

PREDICTION OF MUSCLE VIABILITY AFTER ELECTRICAL BURN NECROSIS

In this preliminary study, Tc-99m MIBI, a muscle perfusion agent, was used to assess the viability of tissues in two patients with extensive high-tension electrical burns. This proved to be an easy and definitive diagnostic procedure and a practical solution to determining the level of amputation before surgery

Immunopathologic study of the conjunctiva in patients with behçet disease.

Purpose: Even though conjunctiva is not primarily involved in patients with uveitis due to Behcet disease, it may reflect the immunopathologic process when inflammation is induced by biopsy of conjunctiva, a phenomenon similar to the induced inflammation at skin pathergy sites