Publications by authors named "Beata Ewa Chrapko"
Role of 18F-FDG PET/CT in the diagnosis of inflammatory and infectious vascular disease.
Nucl Med Rev Cent East Eur
October 2016
This review article discusses the utility of 18F-FDG PET/CT in diagnosis and management of vascular disease. We stress usefulness of this method in large vessel inflammation and infection. In our work we based on the literature analysis and clinical cases diagnosed in our institution by use of 18F-FDG PET/CT.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: The aim of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of iodine-123 metaiodobenzylguanidine (I-mIBG) myocardial scintigraphy in the detection of cardiac sympathetic neuropathy in haemodialysed patients without relevant cardiovascular symptoms.
Materials And Methods: A group of 20 haemodialysed patients were examined. The stress/rest myocardial perfusion scintigraphy by gated single-photon emission computed tomography was performed.
Background: This study aimed to assess the impact of 99mTc-EDDA/HYNIC-TOC (99mTc-TOC) somatostatin receptor scintigraphy (SRS) in clinical practice.
Material/methods: One hundred seventeen patients were divided into 6 groups: 1, initial detection and localization of suspected neuroendocrine tumor (NET); 2, tumor staging before therapy; 3, staging of NET of unknown origin, 4, restaging after surgery of primary tumor; 5, diagnosis of solitary pulmonary nodules (SPNs), and 6, follow-up after "cold" somatostatin analogues treatment.
Results: In group 1, clinical suspicions were not confirmed in any of the patients; in group 2, most of the primary lesions showed overexpression of somatostatin receptors (SSRT); in group 3, the primary tumor was not identified in any of the patients; in group 4, recurrences were depicted in 7 out of 47 patients; in group 5, only 1 malignant SPN was detected, and in group 6, regression of primary mass and metastases were seen on follow-up SRS in 1 patient.