Tc-99m-BrIDA hepatobiliary (HIDA) scan has a low sensitivity for detecting biliary complications after orthotopic liver transplantation in patients with hyperbilirubinemia

Annals of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 762-767

  Hopkins, L Olivia ^a,b   Feyssa, Eyob ^a,b   Parsikia, Afshin ^a   Khanmoradi, Kamran ^a,b   Zaki, Radi ^a,b   Campos, Stalin ^a,b   Araya, Victor ^a,b   Tran, Huyen ^a,b   Ortiz, Jorge ^a,b  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation   (United States)

Author keywords

Hepatobiliary scan; HIDA scan; Hyperbilirubinemia; Orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT)

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN; LIDOFENIN TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILE LEAKAGE; BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE COURSE; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRUE NEGATIVE RESULT; TRUE POSITIVE RESULT;

ADULT; AGED; BILIARY TRACT; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; IMINO ACIDS; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 83855165775     PISSN: 09147187     EISSN: 18646433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12149-011-0523-x     Document Type: Article

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