RENAL-TRANSPLANT NUCLEAR TOMOGRAPHY USING TC-99M MAG3

In this study, the authors performed SPECT imaging on 12 renal transpl ant patients immediately after a routine planar study demonstrated tub ular stasis, The stasis allowed the authors to obtain good quality tom ograms on all of them, In five patients, the findings on the planar an d SPECT studies were identical. In five patients, there was decreased upper pole activity on planar images and SPECT imaging differentiated between attenuation (4 patients) and cortical thinning (1 patient), In the remaining two patients, the SPECT images showed unanticipated inf ormation, It is not yet clear if this new information is of clinical v alue. It was concluded that diagnostic quality nuclear tomograms in re nal transplant patients with tubular stasis can be easily and consiste ntly obtained.