Nuclear radiation has powerful benefits — nuclear power generates electricity while nuclear medicine detects and treats disease — but it also has significant dangers. Radiation Exposure in Daily Life In our everyday lives, we are constantly exposed to radioactive materials, including beta and gamma...
Reports on the issues related to uranium and other nuclear material stored under UN control in Iraq. Drums and containers laced with uranium yellowcake being scavenged by local residents to store water; Development of radiation poisoning symptoms among residents allegedly exposed; Efforts initiated by ...
hardware, and novel radiopharmaceutical approvals. This includes SPECT, PET, and hybrid imaging. Many of these advancements have improved the quality of nuclear medicine imaging in children. The field has benefitted from a higher sensitivity and lower radiation exposure in pediatrics. ...
This information may include past myocardial infarctions and their loca- tion, revascularization procedures, the patient's angina- related and congestive heart failure-related symptoms, presence of diabetes or hypertension, and other coronary risk factors. Information on regional and global LV function...
The ionizing radiation released from atomic bombs Full size image Diseases and death associated with radiation Early symptoms of radiation Researchers have observed major symptoms including epilation, petechiae, along with fever, diarrhea, vomiting, additional oropharyngeal diseases, and hemorrhagic manifestat...
[5]. Importantly, the etiology and progression of these diseases are rooted in modifiable risk factors, including insufficient physical activity, suboptimal dietary practices, use of tobacco, alcohol consumption, stress, and radiation exposure [6,7]. Moreover, cellular cross-talk plays a pivotal ...
in this context the radio-pharmaceutical should be highly sensitive whereas specificity is not so important because subsequent biopsy or morphologically based imaging can be performed; (b) the diagnosis of an infection in patients with localized symptoms, for example after surgery, when normal anatomy...
These symptoms will usually subside simply by slowing the rate of infusion. Mild reactions are more common with rituximab than tositumomab, and it might require 3 hours or more to complete the infusion of the cold antibody. In our experience with more than 150 infusions, reactions have been ...
Giri S, Shaw LL, Murthy DR et al. (2002) Impact of diabetes on the risk stratification using stress singlephoton emission comuted tomography myocardial perfusion imaging in patients with symptoms suggestive of coronary artery disease. Circulation 105:32–40 ...
causing symptoms like joint pain, respiratory problems, fever, fatigue, and a signature butterfly flash across the bridge of the nose and cheeks. It is also a prominentcause of high single-stranded DNA antibodies, which in lupus affects the kidneys. TheLupus Foundation of Americaestimates that ...