Staging of portal hypertension and portosystemic shunts using dynamic nuclear medicine investigations

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World J Gastroenterol. Jun 28, 2008; 14(24): 3841-3848
Published online Jun 28, 2008. doi: 10.3748/wjg.14.3841

Staging of portal hypertension and portosystemic shunts using dynamic nuclear medicine investigations

Mircea Dragoteanu, Ioan A Balea, Liliana A Dina, Cecilia D Piglesan, Ioana Grigorescu, Stefan Tamas, Sabin O Cotul

Mircea Dragoteanu, Cecilia D Piglesan, Stefan Tamas, Sabin O Cotul, Department of Nuclear Medicine, “Professor, Dr. Octavian Fodor” Clinical Emergency Hospital, 19-21 Croitorilor Street, Cluj-Napoca 400162, Romania

Ioan A Balea, Resident doctor in nuclear medicine, “Professor, Dr. Octavian Fodor” Clinical Emergency Hospital, 19-21 Croitorilor Street, Cluj-Napoca 400162, Romania

Liliana A Dina, Ioana Grigorescu, Department of Internal Medicine, “Professor, Dr. Octavian Fodor” Clinical Emergency Hospital, 19-21 Croitorilor Street, Cluj-Napoca 400162, Romania

Author contributions: Dragoteanu M headed the investigation team, designed and coordinated the study, made the interpretation of the results, introduced the new parameters and classification, worked on the preparation and revision of the manuscript and on the statistical analysis of data; Balea IA assisted with the manuscript preparation and revision and the statistical analysis of data; Dina LA participated in the selection and follow up of the patients, the statistical analysis of the data and the evaluation of the per-rectal portal scintigraphy classical method based on the per-rectal portal shunt index; Piglesan CD, Tamas S as physicists were members of the investigation team; Grigorescu I participated in the selection and follow up of the patients and assisted with the statistical analysis of the data; Cotul SO is a retired honorary professor. As chief of laboratory before 2002 he introduced the classic per-rectal portal scintigraphy and liver angioscintigraphy into practice in this hospital and was a member of the investigation team.

Correspondence to: Dr. Mircea Dragoteanu, PhD, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Clinical Emergency Hospital "Prof dr Octavian Fodor", str. Croitorilor 19-21 Cluj-Napoca, 400162, Romania. dragoteanu@yahoo.co.uk

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Received: December 26, 2007
Revised: April 29, 2008
Accepted: May 6, 2008
Published online: June 28, 2008

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