metaiodobenzylguanidine


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metaiodobenzylguanidine

(mĕt″ă-ī-ō″dō-bĕn″zĭl-gwah′nĭ-dēn″),

MIBG

A precursor of a neurotransmitter that is used for a variety of nuclear medicine studies, including the detection of neuroectodermal tumors (e.g., neuroblastoma or pheochromocytoma) and myocardial perfusion imaging.
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Evaluation of semi-quantitative scoring system for metaiodobenzylguanidine (mIBG) scans in patients with relapsed neuroblastoma.
I-131 mIBG Scintigraphy Curie Versus SIOPEN Scoring: Prognostic Value in Stage 4 Neuroblastoma/I-131 mIBG Sintigrafi Curie ve SIOPEN Skorlarinin Evre 4 Noroblastomada Prognostik Degerinin Karsilastirilmasi
Torres, "Myocardial iodine-labeled metaiodobenzylguanidine 123 uptake relates to age," Journal of Nuclear Cardiology, vol.
A Comparative Assessment of Cardiovascular Autonomic Reflex Testing and Cardiac [sup.123]I-Metaiodobenzylguanidine Imaging in Patients with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus without Complications or Cardiovascular Risk Factors
Yamamoto et al., "Diagnostic accuracy of cardiac metaiodobenzylguanidine scintigraphy in Parkinson disease," European Journal of Neurology, vol.
Myocardial [sup.123]I-MIBG uptake and cardiovascular autonomic function in Parkinson's disease
Myocardial iodine-123 metaiodobenzylguanidine imaging and cardiac events in heart failure.
Autonomic nervous system in heart failure: an endless area of research/The preserved autonomic functions may provide the asymptomatic clinical status in heart failure despite advanced left ventricular systolic dysfunction/Kalp yetmezliginde otonom sinir sistemi: Sonu olmayan bir arastirma alam/Korunmus otonomik fonksiyonlar ileri sol ventrikul sistolik disfonksiyonuna ragmen kalp yetersizliginde asemptomatik klinik durumu saglayabilir
Iodine-123 metaiodobenzylguanidine scintigraphic assessment of the transplanted human heart: evidence for late reinnervation.
Treatment of recurrent chest pain in a heart transplant recipient using spinal cord stimulation
u231 Metaiodobenzylguanidine and iii In octreotide uptake in benign and malignant pheochromocytomas.
Bladder pheochromocytoma: case presentation and the use of OctreoScan[R] for localization of extra-adrenal tumor sites in a pediatric patient
Imaging the heart using a nuclear-tagged norepinephrine analogue, metaiodobenzylguanidine (MIBG), allows researchers to assess myocardial innervation and the abnormal denervation that's associated with pathology.
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Iodine-123 metaiodobenzylguanidine imaging and carbon-11 hydroxyephedrine positron emission tomography compared in patients with left ventricular dysfunction.
Nuclear Cardiology in the Diagnosis and Management of Coronory Artery Disease/Koroner Arter Hastaligi Tani ve Yonetiminde Nukleer Kardiyoloji
An upper abdominal extralobar sequestration must be distinguished from a suprarenal neuroblastoma, which lacks systemic arterial supply and demonstrates metaiodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) uptake on nuclear scintigraphy.
Pediatric chest: A Review of the must-know diagnoses
Metaiodobenzylguanidine scintigraphy and single-photon emission CT showed increased uptake in the right adrenal gland (Figure 1(b)).
A Novel RET D898Y Germline Mutation in a Patient with Pheochromocytoma
in their paper "A Comparative Assessment of Cardiovascular Autonomic Reflex Testing and Cardiac 123I-Metaiodobenzylguanidine Imaging in Patients with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus without Complications or Cardiovascular Risk Factors" compared the diagnostic performance of cardiovascular autonomic reflex tests with that of sympathetic innervation heart imaging with 123I metaiodobenzylguanidine for cardiac autonomic neuropathy in type 1 DM.
Diabetic Microvascular Complications
Matthay, "Radiolabeled metaiodobenzylguanidine for the treatment of neuroblastoma," Nuclear Medicine and Biology, vol.
Correlation of Somatostatin Receptor-2 Expression with Gallium-68-DOTA-TATE Uptake in Neuroblastoma Xenograft Models

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