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ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: Read more on Siemens SPECT•CT BY SAR AH L AMBERTI SPECT/CT’s Role in Organ transplantation has continued to evolve since the first successful kidney transplant in 1954 between living identical twins. Over the last 20 years, organ transplants and longer survival rates for recipients have increased due to breakthroughs in tissue typing, immunosuppressant drugs and medical imaging. Challenges still remain, however, to effectively ensure a recipient heals correctly, 14 Molecular Imaging Insight | June 2008 Post-Transplant Infection Imaging Timely and accurate diagnosis and treatment of infection in post-transplant organ patients is critical to patient survival and the prevention of organ rejection. When a patient presents with infection symptoms and physicians cannot immediately ascertain the location, they turn to SPECT/CT imaging as a technique of last resort to pinpoint infection at the source—and ultimately improve patient management for post-transplant recipients. particularly regarding suppressing and preventing infection. Approximately 56 people receive an organ transplant in the United States every day. From Jan. 1, 1988, to Jan. 31, 2008, there have been 424,064 organ transplants performed in the U.S. Of that, more than half of the transplants performed were kidney transplants, followed by liver and heart. MolecularImaging.net http://www.siemens.com/symbia http://MolecularImaging.net

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Molecular Imaging Insight - June 2008 Contents NOPR: A Landmark Study Cover Story: Evidence-based Medicine Points to Wider Role for Molecular Imaging in Patient Care NOPR Delivers Evidence for Expanded PET Use in Oncology Imaging The Balancing Act Nuclear Cardiology’s Next Step Molecular Imaging Training Gaining Traction SPECT/CT’s Role in Post-Transplant Infection Imaging Clinical Study Digest : Heart Disease & Metastatic Breast, Gastric and Head & Neck Cancer

Molecular Imaging Insight - June 2008

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