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Functions
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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