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Renal Arteriovenous Transit Times of Technetium-Radiolabeled Chelates

Gary R. Conrad, Carl A. Wesolowski^*, Kevin S. Berbaum, Karen C. Jensen and Peter T. Kirchner

Correspondence: For reprints contact: Gary R. Conrad, MD, Dept. of Radiology, CC702 GH, The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IO 52242.

ABSTRACT

A noninvasive method was developed for quantitating the distribution of renal arteriovenous transit times of technetium-99m (^99mTc) radiopharmaceuticals. Using this method, the characteristic transit times and amplitudes of the first two components of [^99mTC] DTPA or MDP transit through the renal vasculature were calculated. The first component amplitude (A1) was evaluated for its ability to discriminate between 20 hypertensive patients with renovascular disease and 21 normotensive subjects. A1 was compared with three other quantitative indices: the ascending slope of the initial renal time-activity curve, the kidney-to-aorta slope ratio (K/A), and renal size. A1 nearly perfectly separated the hypertensive patients from the normotensive subjects; the ability of A1 to discriminate between these two groups is clearly superior to renal size, the initial renal slope, and K/A. We conclude that measurements of the intrarenal distribution of blood flow have distinct advantages over indices of renal blood flow that have been derived from scintillation camera measurements of ^99mTc radiopharmaceuticals.

FOOTNOTES

^* Present address: Dept. Nuclear Medicine, General Hospital, Health Science Centre, St. John's, Newfoundland AIB 3V6.

Present address: Dept. Radiology, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Hanover, NH 03756.