Bone marrow hyperplasia detected by gated blood pool imaging

Tarun Jain, Alka Khadwal, Ashwani Sood, Renjith Kalathoorakath, Madan Parmar, Bhagwant Mittal

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Abstract

Technetium-99m RBC gated blood pool ventriculography study or multigated acquisition (MUGA) is a commonly employed imaging study to determine the left ventricle ejection fraction and regional wall motion. However, tracer distribution at abnormal sites requires further evaluation. We present the case of a young thalassemia patient with significant tracer uptake in the rib cage as observed in the planar images of MUGA study helping in the demonstration of scintigraphic evidence of bone marrow hyperplasia.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)739-741
Number of pages3
JournalJournal of Nuclear Cardiology
Volume24
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Apr 2017
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Gated blood pool imaging
  • beta-thalassemia major
  • bone marrow
  • technetium-99m

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