Nuclear medicine provides imaging modalities that can be used to observe physiological processes in the human body, particularly in the bones, heart, lungs, renal system and brain.

After a long and bumpy path to approval, the U.S. FDA has finally given the green light to Cyclopharm Ltd.'s Technegas combination product a day after the Sept. 29 PDUFA date. Technegas is a nuclear ...

The written report is the final product of the Nuclear Medicine consultation. Reports must contain specific information to identify the patient, the specific procedure, indications for the examination ...

How Does a VQ Scan Work? The VQ scan is a nuclear scan. It measures airflow, called ventilation, and blood flow, called perfusion, in your lungs. The V and Q make up a math equation that helps doctors ...

MDCT pulmonary angiography is replacing the ventilation-perfusion lung scan to diagnose suspected pulmonary embolism in hospitalized patients, say researchers from Rhode Island Hospital in Providence.

When you breathe, a certain fraction of your air enters the lungs and blood flows through the capillaries. When this ratio is above or below 0.8, you may have ventilation/perfusion (V/Q) mismatch. A V ...

VIENNA — Some patients who had mild COVID-19 infection during the first wave of the pandemic and continued to experience postinfection symptoms for at least 12 months after infection present abnormal ...

Lung transplant is usually done in patients with non-malignant advanced or end-stage pulmonary diseases (such as severe pulmonary fibrosis, cystic fibrosis, pulmonary hypertension and obliterative ...

This Journal feature begins with a case vignette highlighting a common clinical problem. Evidence supporting various strategies is then presented, followed by a review of formal guidelines, when they ...

THE association of Laënnec's cirrhosis with arterial oxygen unsaturation has been recognized but not satisfactorily explained. We have previously reported observations on a patient with Laënnec's ...