Assessment of lower extremities ischemic disease by thallium 201 perfusion scintigraphy in patients with diabetic angiopathy | Zendy

Milica Čizmić | Zendy; Dragan Pucar | Zendy; Uroš Zoranović | Zendy

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Assessment of lower extremities ischemic disease by thallium 201 perfusion scintigraphy in patients with diabetic angiopathy

Author(s) -

Milica Čizmić,

Dragan Pucar,

Uroš Zoranović

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

vojnosanitetski pregled

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123

H-Index - 19

eISSN - 2406-0720

pISSN - 0042-8450

DOI - 10.2298/vsp1102161c

Subject(s) - perfusion , medicine , thallium , scintigraphy , diabetes mellitus , microangiopathy , ischemia , nuclear medicine , angiopathy , cardiology , endocrinology , chemistry , inorganic chemistry

Tibial perfusion in diabetic microangiopathy is considered to be a diagnostic problem. A special place in quantifying muscle microcirculatory perfusion belongs to thallium 201 muscle perfusion scintigraphy (201T1 PS). Thallium, showing the characteristics of potassium (K+), enters a cell by means of active cell transportation and follows erythrocyte up to the tissue. The aim of this study was to determine if T1 PS of lower extremities (LE) is a good method for estimating muscle microcirculatory perfusion in diabetic microangiopathy.

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