Glendive Medical Center announced Wednesday they person added atomic medicine to their database of services and are present taking patients.
Nuclear medicine is simply a specialized country of radiology that uses precise tiny amounts of radiopharmaceuticals to measure bodily functions to diagnose and dainty illness much precisely.
"Nuclear medicine tests tin prime up conditions that X-rays oregon different imaging tests whitethorn miss, and the benefits of atomic medicine process acold outweigh the infinitesimal risks," said CEO Parker Powell successful a statement. "Typically patients person to permission municipality for this benignant of test, present they are capable to enactment adjacent to location and person this precocious technology."
Dr. Kelly Dinnan, wide surgeon, was astatine the helm of adding the caller work arsenic bosom crab is simply a illness she specializes successful treating. Nuclear medicine scans supply a precise, much close diagnosis and a attraction program tin beryllium tailored to the aesculapian information aft the procedure. This allows Dinnan the accidental to streamline in-house to diagnose and past customize a attraction program for her patients.
Breast crab is not the lone illness that atomic medicine tin diagnosis; bony diseases including fractures, infection, and cancer; lungs, liver/spleen, gallbladder, bile ducts, gastrointestinal, coronary artery disease, accent tests, thyroid uptake, parathyroid glands, and renal (kidney) scans are besides available.
Scans tin scope from 30 minutes to a mates of hours depending connected the benignant of trial being performed. Before the test, patients volition person a radioisotope done injection. This volition assistance item the country the doc needs to image. During the scan, a diligent is exposed to lone a infinitesimal magnitude of radiation. All traces of the radioisotope volition permission the patient’s strategy successful 12 to 24 hours. Children tin besides safely acquisition a atomic medicine procedure.
Nuclear medicine is successful the erstwhile laboratory space, crossed from outpatient registration. The country has been divided and wholly remodeled for this caller service, partially owed to a generous donation by GMC Auxiliary.
Nuclear medicine requires preauthorization by a provider. Patients tin acceptable up an assignment with a GMC supplier by calling 406-345-8901. For much accusation astir atomic medicine, delight sojourn gmc.org/services oregon sojourn with your supplier during your appointment.
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