RADIONUCLIDE ASSESSMENT OF VASCULAR COMPLICATIONS IN RENAL-TRANSPLANTPATIENTS

Nuclear medicine can make an efficient contribution to the diagnosis a nd monitoring of renal disease and to the assessment of therapeutic in terventions in the field of renal tranplantation. The new radio pharma ceutical MAG 3 labelled with Tc-99m provides renal imaging of quality in patients with impaired renal function and enables quantitative eval uation of renal function. We report on radionuclide evaluation, with s pecial emphasis on the analysis of the vascular component of the scint igram, in the different clinical situations (i.e. renal failure) that may compromise the outcome of a successful renal transplant.