title: Bone marrow hyperplasia detected by gated blood pool imaging.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nuclear Medicine, Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India.
authors.forename: Tarun
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Jain
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India.
authors.forename: Alka
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Khadwal
authors.affiliation: Department of Nuclear Medicine, Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India. sood99@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Ashwani
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sood
authors.affiliation: Department of Nuclear Medicine, Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India.
authors.forename: Renjith
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kalathoorakath
authors.affiliation: Department of Nuclear Medicine, Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India.
authors.forename: Madan
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Parmar
authors.affiliation: Department of Nuclear Medicine, Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India.
authors.forename: Bhagwant
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Mittal
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001853:Bone Marrow / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology*; D055426:Cardiac-Gated Single-Photon Emission Computer-Assisted Tomography / Q000379:methods*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004912:Erythrocytes / Q000473:pathology*; D015637:Gated Blood-Pool Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D006965:Hyperplasia / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D013670:Sodium Pertechnetate Tc 99m
chemical_list: D013670:Sodium Pertechnetate Tc 99m
keywords: Gated blood pool imaging; beta-thalassemia major; bone marrow; technetium-99m