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Atomic Energy Medical Center Karachi is providing Nuclear Medicine facilities on routine basis to indoor and outdoor patients referred by Jinnah Hospital, Agha Khan University Hospital, NICVD,NICH, Civil Hospital, Lyari General Hospital, PNS Shifa, Abbasi Shaheed Hospital and all other nearby hospitals.
It is the sole referral centre for Thyroid disorders. All facilities for thyroid gland investigation are available. The physiological information obtained from renal scintigraphy is helpful to the clinicians for devising management strategy.
The centre has also the facility of transplant studies which are helpful in evaluating the early rejection of the graft.
All types of Nuclear Cardiology facilities are provided by AEMC. This includes myocardial perfusion study, first pass study, multi gated cardiac study etc. These studies are performed by Thallium-201, and Tc-99m labeled MIBI used for the staging of malignant disorders.
In addition to the above mentioned investigations centre also provides the facilities of Brain scanning, Hapatobiliary imaging, lung scanning and scintimammography. More than 35,000 different scans are being done every year. Thyroid, Pituitary and steroid hormones are analyzed by using the facility of RIA.
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