Impact of Renal Failure on F18-FDG PET/CT Scans.

Objective: The current guidelines for 2-deoxy-2-[18F]fluoro-d-glucose PET/CT scanning do not address potential inaccuracies that may arise due to patients with renal failure. We report a retrospective analysis of standard uptake values (SUVs) in patients with and without renal failure in order to warrant a protocol adjustment.

Methods: Patients were matched based on age, gender, and BMI all of which are potential effectors on observed SUV.

A multiple-site laboratory evaluation of three on-site urinalysis drug-testing devices.

Presented are findings from a multisite laboratory evaluation comparing on-site urinalysis drug-test results to results from Syva EMIT immunoassay and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). Three laboratories participated in the NHTSA-funded project. Specimens were tested for amphetamines, benzodiazepines, cocaine, cannabinoids, and opiates.

[Recanalization by intracoronary infusion of streptokinase in acute myocardial infarction. Hospital course in 204 patients (author's transl)].

A multicenter study evaluated the early management and subsequent hospital course of 204 patients with acute myocardial infarction who were receiving intracoronary infusions of streptokinase (STK). The in-hospital mortality in 37 patients with thrombotic occlusion of the infarct-related vessel, in whom recanalization could not be achieved, was 24%. However, the cardiac mortality in 129 patients who were successfully treated by percutaneous transluminal coronary recanalization (PTCR) was only 5.