The Possibilities of Nuclear Medicine Methods in Inflammation Diagnosis

Abstract

Modern nuclear medicine is a rapidly developing field that includes various non-invasive molecular imaging techniques with the ability to examine the whole body.Inflammation is a frequent complication in surgical and traumatological practices, which is a complex, local and general pathological process that occurs in the body in response to injury. Having arisen under the influence of a damaging factor, inflammation is characterized by the development of a dynamic complex of changes. However, the search for inflammation foci of inflammation by traditional diagnostic methods in some cases is difficult even with a detailed clinical picture. In this case, nuclear medicine, which is able to visualize pathological processes, including those with a pathological increase in metabolism, may be the best option for finding the affected area.A wide variety of radiopharmaceutical drugs makes it possible to determine the localization of the inflammatory focus in a short time and with high accuracy and makes nuclear imaging methods a priority for the early diagnosis of pathophysiological reactions.This paper presents a review of domestic and foreign literature on the use of specific and nonspecific radiopharmaceuticals in the diagnosis of inflammation. Own cases is also presented.