99mTc-Mebrofenin SPECT/CT in Hepatic Infarction

Clin Nucl Med. 2021 Jan;46(1):e8-e10. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000003312.

Abstract

A 68-year-old man with hereditary hypercoagulability was referred to nuclear medicine for elevated aminotransferases after a recent living-donor liver transplant. A hepatic infarction was suspected. A Tc-mebrofenin SPECT/CT was performed and showed decreased radiotracer uptake in a wedge-shaped distribution in the anterior liver suggestive of a hepatic infarction. Subsequently, an enhanced MRI corroborated the diagnosis. Oral anticoagulation therapy was then initiated, and aminotransferases soon normalized.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Aniline Compounds
  • Glycine
  • Hepatic Infarction / diagnostic imaging*
  • Hepatic Infarction / drug therapy
  • Hepatic Infarction / physiopathology
  • Humans
  • Imino Acids*
  • Liver Transplantation
  • Male
  • Organotechnetium Compounds*
  • Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography Computed Tomography*

Substances

  • Aniline Compounds
  • Imino Acids
  • Organotechnetium Compounds
  • technetium Tc 99m mebrofenin
  • Glycine