Regional cerebral blood flow scintigraphy in tick-borne encephalitis and other aseptic meningoencephalitis.

Unlabelled: In a prospective study, regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) was studied in patients with aseptic meningoencephalitis at 6 wk and 1 yr after onset of disease.

Methods: Patients with tick-borne encephalitis ([TBE] n = 73) and meningoencephalitis of other etiology ([non-TBE] n = 56) were investigated with rCBF-scintigraphy (SPECT). SPECT images in the acute phase of disease and at long-term follow-up were analyzed for blood-flow disturbances and their localization in the central nervous system and were correlated to clinical course and outcome.

MR imaging of multiple myeloma patients with bone-marrow transplants.

Purpose: To evaluate the role of MR imaging in the examination of multiple myeloma (MM) patients with bone-marrow transplants.

Material And Methods: A total of 40 MR examinations were made of 20 patients: 33 examinations of the spine and pelvis in 20/20 patients; and 7 examinations of the femora in 5/20 patients. The 40 examinations were evaluated and the results compared with those found at radiography.

A retrospective analysis of nitric oxide inhalation in patients with severe acute lung injury in Sweden and Norway 1991-1994.

Background: Patients with severe acute lung injury (ALI) have been treated compassionately on doctors' initiative with inhaled nitric oxide (INO) in Sweden and Norway since 1991. In 1994 the previously used technical grade nitric oxide was replaced by medical grade nitric oxide.

Methods: We have carried out a retrospective data collection on all identified adult patients treated with INO for >4 h during the period 1991-1994 focusing on safety aspects and patient outcome.

Dynamic scintigraphy of bone and bone marrow in multiple myeloma patients with bone-marrow transplants.

Purpose: To determine whether dynamic registration at bone and bone-marrow scintigraphy produces additional information compared to subsequent static registrations of bone-marrow transplants in multiple myeloma patients.

Material And Methods: In a prospective study, 8 dynamic bone and 6 dynamic bone-marrow scintigraphies were performed in 10 patients. The dynamic scintigraphies were compared with conventional radiography, MR images, and static scintigraphies of bone and bone marrow.

Bone marrow imaging of bone marrow transplanted multiple myeloma patients.

Eighteen bone marrow transplanted multiple myeloma patients had imaging studies on 24 occasions with radiography as well as bone and bone marrow scintigraphy within 2 months. Twelve of the radionuclide bone marrow studies were performed with Tc-99m human serum albumin colloid and 12 were performed with a Tc-99m tagged monoclonal antigranulocyte antibody. The total detection rate of bone marrow lesions increased by 5% when the findings on bone marrow scintigraphy were combined with the findings and at radiography bone scintigraphy.