[Contribution of nuclear medicine to management of pulmonary complications in patients with acquired immune deficiency].
Opportunistic lung infections and malignancies are life-threatening complications in HIV-positive patients. In 72 HIV-positive patients the role of different non-invasive tests such as lung function tests, blood gas analysis, 67 gallium scanning and epithelial lung clearance with 99m Tc-DTPA for the management of these patients was prospectively studied. For all non-invasive tests the mean values of patients with pulmonary complications (n = 25) differed significantly from those of asymptomatic HIV-positive patients (n = 47) (p < 0.001). In 10 patients presenting with acute Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, 99m Tc-DTPA clearance rates and 67 gallium uptake differed significantly before and after therapy (4.80 +/- 1.23%/min vs 2.47 +/- 0.72%/min and 2.15 +/- 0.42 vs 1.39 +/- 0.18, respectively). Follow-up after therapy revealed different time courses of these tests for normalization. A significant inverse correlation was found between DLCO and 99m Tc-DTPA lung clearance (r = -0.90, p < 0.001, n = 35). A diffuse homogeneous 67 gallium uptake is not diagnostic for PCP, the same pattern was found in a patient with lymphoid interstitial pneumonitis and in patients with CMV pneumonitis; these patients also had accelerated epithelial lung clearance rates. 67 gallium (6/6) was superior to 99m Tc-labelled immunoglobulin G (3/6) for detection of PCP. The 3 patients with Kaposi sarcoma of the lung had negative 67 gallium scans, but positive 201 thallium scans and increased 99m Tc-DTPA clearance rates.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
Köhn
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Institut für Nuklearmedizin, Wilhelminenspital, Wien.
Armbruster
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König
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Vetter
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Mostbeck
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