Acute complications of nuclear medicine: an emergency medicine perspective
Mehmet Necmeddin Sutaşır, Banu Arslan, Mohamed Mukhtar Mohamed, Nihat Müjdat Hökenek · 2026
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Description
Sutaşır and co-authors review what emergency physicians need to know when nuclear medicine scans and treatments go wrong, from tracer leaking out of the vein to allergic reactions. Their 2026 narrative review searched four databases for studies from 2020 to 2024 on acute events after radiopharmaceutical administration.
Leakage is commoner than charts suggest: systematic checks found partial or complete tracer extravasation in about 15% of PET/CT examinations, with center rates from 2.9% to over 20% depending on technique. One multicenter quality program cut detected extravasation from 13.3% to 2.9% over 25 weeks of process work. In a 1,002-patient cohort, 18.7% reported at least one adverse event, though only 43% of those were judged possibly drug-related.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Mehmet Necmeddin Sutaşır, Banu Arslan, Mohamed Mukhtar Mohamed, Nihat Müjdat Hökenek |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 42 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |