Highlights of the Latest Developments in Radiopharmaceuticals for Infection Imaging and Future Perspectives [PDF]
Frontiers in Medicine, 2022 COVID-19 pandemic has heightened the interest toward diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases. Nuclear medicine with its powerful scintigraphic, single photon emission computer tomography (SPECT) and positron emission tomography (PET) imaging ...
Ekaterina Dadachova +1 more
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Design, Preparation, and Evaluation of a Novel 99mTcN Complex of Ciprofloxacin Xanthate as a Potential Bacterial Infection Imaging Agent [PDF]
Molecules, 2020 In order to seek novel technetium-99m bacterial infection imaging agents, a ciprofloxacin xanthate (CPF2XT) was synthesized and radiolabeled with [99mTcN]2+ core to obtain the 99mTcN-CPF2XT complex, which exhibited high radiochemical purity ...
Si’an Fang +5 more
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Chronic Pulmonary Manifestations of COVID-19 Infection: Imaging Evaluation. [PDF]
Radiology, 2023 This case presents a patient with severe COVID-19 pneumonia requiring intensive care unit admission and a prolonged hospital stay. The infection resulted in long-term morbidity, functional decline, and abnormal chest CT findings.
Murphy MC, Little BP.
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Skin Pigmentation Impacts the Clinical Diagnosis of Wound Infection: Imaging of Bacterial Burden to Overcome Diagnostic Limitations. [PDF]
J Racial Ethn Health Disparities, 2023 Underrepresentation of diverse skin tones in medical education and providers’ implicit racial bias drives inequities in wound care, such as disproportionally poor outcomes for Black patients. Diagnostic indicators (e.g., erythema) can present differently
Johnson J +5 more
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Antibiotic-Derived Radiotracers for Positron Emission Tomography: Nuclear or "Unclear" Infection Imaging? [PDF]
Angew Chem Int Ed Engl, 2022 The excellent features of non‐invasive molecular imaging, its progressive technology (real‐time, whole‐body imaging and quantification), and global impact by a growing infrastructure for positron emission tomography (PET) scanners are encouraging ...
Gouws AC +6 more
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Radiotracers for Bone Marrow Infection Imaging. [PDF]
Molecules, 2021 Introduction: Radiotracers are widely used in medical imaging, using techniques of gamma-camera imaging (scintigraphy and SPECT) or positron emission tomography (PET).
Jødal L +3 more
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Integrating a covalent probe with ubiquicidin fragment enables effective bacterial infection imaging. [PDF]
RSC Med Chem, 2022 Developing potent and novel bacterial imaging agents remains formidable due to the rapid development of bacterial resistance. Ubiquicidin and its derivatives are the most studied antimicrobial peptides that bind to anionic membranes of a broad range of ...
Bhatt Mitra J +4 more
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Imaging infection and inflammation [PDF]
BioMed Research International, 2015 No abstract ...
A. W., Glaudemans +3 more
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Radiosynthesis, quality control, biodistribution, and infection-imaging study of a new 99mTc-labeled ertapenem radiopharmaceutical [PDF]
Frontiers in Chemistry, 2022 Ertapenem is a member of carbapenem antibiotics used for the treatment of moderate-to-severe intra-abdominal, urinary tract, acute pelvic, and post-surgical gynecologic infections.
Syed Ali Raza Naqvi +10 more
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Recently developed radiopharmaceuticals for bacterial infection imaging. [PDF]
EJNMMI Radiopharm ChemInfection remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality, regardless of advances in antimicrobial therapy and improved knowledge of microorganisms.
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