Unlabelled: Penile scintigraphy with [99mTc]pertechnetate/99mTc-RBCs was performed in patients with sickle cell disease patients who had priapism to assess the role of this imaging procedure in directing the clinical management of these patients.
Methods: Fifteen studies were performed in 13 patients who were treated according to a protocol not dependent on the imaging results. The scintigraphic findings of penile vascular perfusion (stagnant or nonstagnant patterns) were collated retrospectively with the form of treatment needed for relief of the condition.
Results: Four of five patients with the nonstagnant perfusion pattern responded to analgesics and intravenous hydration. Four of eight patients with the stagnant pattern did not require any aggressive interventions such as corporeal aspiration/irrigation, intracorporeal epinephrine or glans-cavernosa shunt.
Conclusion: Whereas the nonstagnant scintigraphic finding appeared to be a favorable indicator for conservative treatment, the stagnant finding was apparently noncontributory. In addition, no correlation was found between these two types of scintigraphic patterns and the subsequent sexual potency of these patients.
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