Scintigraphy Selections

Bush JL, Nemanic S, Gordon J. in Scientific Proceedings (Abstract). American College of Veterinary Radiology 2014. Introduction/Purpose: Hyperthyroidism is diagnosed based on clinical signs and elevated serum total thyroxine (TT4) levels. Imaging diagnosis is made with nuclear scintigraphy, and recently … Read More

Daniel GB, Neelis DA. Semin Nucl Med 2014;44:24-34. Thyroid scintigraphy is performed in cats and dogs and has been used to a limited degree in other species such as the horse. Thyroid scintigraphy is most commonly used to aid in … Read More

Dyson S. Seminars in nuclear medicine 2014;44:4-14. Nuclear scintigraphic examination of equine athletes has a potentially important role in the diagnosis of lameness or poor performance, but increased radiopharmaceutical uptake (IRU) is not necessarily synonymous with pain causing lameness. Nuclear … Read More

Morandi F. Seminars in nuclear medicine 2014;44:15-23. The most common veterinary application of liver scintigraphy is for the diagnosis of portosystemic shunts (PSSs). There has been a continual evolution of nuclear medicine techniques for diagnosis of PSS, starting in the … Read More

Tomlinson JE, Johnson AL, Ross MW, et al. Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine 2014;28:687-692. A 20-year-old, 275-kg, Welsh pony gelding was referred to New Bolton Center for treatment of primary hyperparathyroidism. The horse was diag- nosed with primary hyperparathyroidism based … Read More

Tyson R, Daniel GB. Seminars in nuclear medicine 2014;44:35-46.

Westgren F, Ley CJ, Kampa N, et al. Veterinary Radiology & Ultrasound 2014;55:632-637. The current standard scintigraphic method for estimating glomerular filtration rate (GFR) in dogs is the integral method, which normalizes renal GFR to body weight. The plasma volume … Read More

Bettencourt AE, Panciera DL, Larson M, et al. in Conference Proceedings. American College of Veterinary Radiology 2013;75. IntroductionlPurpose: Thyroid scintigraphy has been used to diagnose, quantify and characterize disease, and predict treatment outcome in hyperthyroid cats. Scintigraphic methods to quantify … Read More

Peterson ME. Compend Contin Educ Vet 2013;35:E3. In older cats presenting with clinical features of hyperthyroidism, confirming the diagnosis of thyroid disease is usually straightforward. However, the potential for false-negative and false-positive results exists with all thyroid function tests, especially … Read More

Peterson ME. Compend Contin Educ Vet 2013;35:E1. Although naturally occurring hypothyroidism is very rare in cats, iatrogenic hypothyroidism is a recognized complication of treatment for hyperthyroidism. However, confirming the diagnosis of hypothyroidism in cats is not generally straightforward. The potential … Read More