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Inferior Vena Cava Filter Thrombus: a Possible Cause of an Unanticipated Finding of 99mTc-labeled Red Blood Cell Scintigraphy

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99mTc-labeled red blood cell scintigraphy, a sensitive and specific diagnostic test, is useful for patients suspected of suffering from active gastrointestinal bleeding. This study follows a case of a patient who was suspected of gastrointestinal bleeding after an inferior vena cava filter was inserted due to a deep vein thrombosis of the femoral vein. To evaluate an exact focus of bleeding, 99mTc-labeled red blood cell scintigraphy was executed. Herein, an unanticipated finding of 99mTc-labeled red blood cell scintigraphy probably due to a thrombus on the inferior vena cava filter is reported.

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99mTc-labeled red blood cell scintigraphy shows that focal radioactivity appeared in the mid abdomen area on the 50-minute image, remained with no interval change for 4 hours, then disappeared on the 21-hour image (a). Coronal and transaxial images of computed tomography angiography demonstrate that an IVC filter existed at the same location where focal radioactivity appeared in the 99mTc-labeled RBC scintigraphy (b, c; empty arrows)

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The study was approved by an institutional review board or equivalent and has been performed in accordance with the ethical standards laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments. All subjects in the study gave written informed consent or the institutional review board waived the need to obtain informed consent.

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  1. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Jeju National University School of Medicine, Jeju, Republic of Korea

    Heesung Song

  2. Department of Internal Medicine, Jeju National University School of Medicine, Jeju, Republic of Korea

    Joon Hyouk Choi

  3. Department of Radiation Oncology, Jeju National University School of Medicine, Aran 13gil 15, Jeju-si, 690-767, Republic of Korea

    Young Suk Kim

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Song, H., Choi, J.H. & Kim, Y.S. Inferior Vena Cava Filter Thrombus: a Possible Cause of an Unanticipated Finding of 99mTc-labeled Red Blood Cell Scintigraphy. Nucl Med Mol Imaging 50, 178–179 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13139-015-0352-2

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