title: Scintigraphy with 99mTc(V)-DMSA in monitoring patients with inflammatory bowel disease.
abstract: The clinical significance of pentavalent technetium-99m dimercaptosuccinic acid (99mTc(V)-DMSA) scintigraphy in diagnosing inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) has not yet been fully elucidated. The aim of this prospective paper was to study the above. This study included 54 patients, 22 females and 32 males (mean age: 36.68±11.49; range: 18-63 years) with IBD who came to our clinics for follow-up and were examined clinically by colonoscopy and 99mTc(V)-DMSA scintigraphy. On the follow-up studies, five patients (9.25%) relapsed, and 49 (90.74%) remained at a steady condition. There was a good correlation between the scintigraphic results and the clinical and colonoscopy data of the patients (P<0.05). In conclusion, our results indicated that 99mTc(V)DMSA scintigraphy can be complementary to colonoscopy for the diagnostic evaluation of IBD.
authors.affiliation: The Persian Gulf Nuclear Medicine Research Center, The Persian Gulf Biomedical Sciences Institute, Boostan 19 Alley, Sangi Street, Bushehr, Iran. assadipoya@yahoo.com, asadi@bpums.ac.ir.
authors.forename: Hamid
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Javadi
authors.forename: Taghi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Amiriani
authors.forename: HoneySadat
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Mirkarimi
authors.forename: Sima
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Besharat
authors.forename: Shahriar
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Semnani
authors.forename: Jamshid
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Abedi
authors.forename: Mohammad
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Seyedabadi
authors.forename: Majid
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Assadi
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003113:Colonoscopy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015212:Inflammatory Bowel Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D019783:Technetium Tc 99m Dimercaptosuccinic Acid; D055815:Young Adult
chemical_list: D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D019783:Technetium Tc 99m Dimercaptosuccinic Acid