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sestamibi

(sĕs′tə-mē′bē)
n.
An injectable drug containing an isotope of the radioactive element technetium, used in nuclear medicine imaging primarily to visualize the heart muscle, parathyroid glands, and breast tissue.
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sestamibi

99mTc or technicium-99m sestamibi Imaging A myocardial perfusion agent for assessing an 'at-risk' myocardium–for acute MI, used with tomography to determine the final size of an acute MI
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Sestamibi scan was done using a double isotope technique with technetium sestamibi (approximately 22.0 mCi [81 MBq]) with computer subtraction of iodine I 123 thyroid scan (1.0 mCi [37 MBq]) including all three views and single-photon emission computed tomography images.
Negative imaging studies for primary hyperparathyroidism are unavoidable: correlation of sestamibi and high-resolution ultrasound scanning with histological analysis in 150 patients.
Therefore, there is a need for further investigations such as neck ultrasound, sestamibi scan, CT imaging, 4D CT, and MRI [15, 16].
A scintigraphy with Tc99m sestamibi (MIBI) was performed in which a pathological hypercaptation was observed at the level of the left inferior thyroid.
Sestamibi scan ((99m)Tc) displayed a dominant right-sided neck lesion with minimal uptake of technetium.
A scintigraphy was performed with sestamibi that showed myocardial ischemia of small-to-moderate extension in the anteroseptal and inferoapical regions of the left ventricle (LV).
Parathyroid technetium scintiscan (99mTc Sestamibi; Technetium-99 MIBI; methoxy-isobutyl-isonitrile) was requisite and revealed left lower parathyroid adenoma (Figure 6).
Berman, "Myocardial perfusion imaging with technetium-99m sestamibi SPECT in the evaluation of coronary artery disease," Am.
Imaging studies can easily mistake ITPAs for thyroid nodules as they both show increased uptake on technetium [sup.99m]Tc sestamibi scans and are hypoechoic on ultrasound.
Keywords: Adenosine, Fixed perfusion defect, Mild coronary artery disease, Myocardial perfusion, Reversible perfusion defect, Sestamibi, Scintigraphy.
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