Nuclear Medicine Unit at Hospital Blua Sanitas Valdebebas – PET and SPECT CT in Madrid
Team led by Dr. Patricia Paredes Rodríguez
The Nuclear Medicine Unit at Hospital Blua Sanitas Valdebebas (Madrid) is staffed by specialists with extensive clinical, research, and teaching experience, trained in leading national reference hospitals.
We work closely with Radiology and multiple medical and surgical specialties, producing joint reports that improve diagnostic accuracy and ensure a multidisciplinary approach to patient care.
Advanced Nuclear Medicine Technology
- State-of-the-art digital PET
- SPECT CT with multiple tracers
- Wireless gamma probe for radioguided surgery
Areas of Clinical Application
Nuclear Oncology
- PET and SPECT CT with oncological tracers
- Radioguided surgery and sentinel lymph node localization
Nuclear Neurology
- Brain PET
- Amyloid PET for the diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases
Nuclear Cardiology
- Isotope stress testing
- Early detection of cardiac amyloidosis
Treatments
Nuclear Cardiology
- Myocardial perfusion SPECT and SPECT CT
- Cardiac SPECT and SPECT CT, isotopic ventriculography
- Scintigraphy for detection of cardiac amyloidosis with DPD
Radioguided Surgery
Nuclear Endocrinology
- Thyroid scintigraphy with 99mTc, I-123, I-131
- Parathyroid scintigraphy with 99mTc-MIBI
- Parathyroid SPECT and SPECT CT
- Choline PET for parathyroid evaluation
- Intraoperative localization of parathyroid adenoma
- Adrenal cortical scintigraphy with iodo-cholesterol
- Adrenal medullary scintigraphy with I-123 MIBG
Gastrointestinal
- Salivary gland scintigraphy
- Gastroesophageal transit/reflux scintigraphy
- Gastric emptying scintigraphy for gastroparesis assessment
- Hepatobiliary scintigraphy for suspected cholecystitis
- Scintigraphy for ectopic gastric mucosa (Meckel’s diverticulum)
- Liver and liver-spleen scintigraphy
- Scintigraphy for bile acid malabsorption (chronic diarrhea)
Inflammation & Infection
- FDG PET
- Gallium-67 scintigraphy/whole-body scan
- Monoclonal antibody scintigraphy
Lymphatic
- Lymphoscintigraphy for lymphedema assessment
- Lymphoscintigraphy for sentinel lymph node evaluation
- Intraoperative sentinel lymph node localization (breast cancer, melanoma, head and neck, etc.)
Nuclear Oncology
- FDG PET CT
- PET CT with other tracers (PSMA, choline) for prostate cancer
- PET CT with fluorodopa and Ga-68 somatostatin analogs for neuroendocrine tumors
- Somatostatin receptor scintigraphy (Octreoscan) for neuroendocrine tumors
- MIBG scintigraphy for neural crest tumors
- I-131 whole-body scan for thyroid cancer
Osteomuscular
- Bone scintigraphy for bone metastases or metabolic bone disease
- Three-phase bone scintigraphy for orthopedic/trauma-related bone disorders
- Bone SPECT and SPECT CT
Renal & Urinary
- Renal scintigraphy (DMSA)
- Renal SPECT and SPECT CT
- Baseline and diuretic renogram
- Post-ACE inhibitor renogram for renovascular hypertension assessment
- Cystoscintigraphy
Nuclear Pulmonology
- Pulmonary perfusion scintigraphy
- Pulmonary ventilation scintigraphy
- Pulmonary perfusion SPECT and SPECT CT
- Pulmonary ventilation SPECT and SPECT CT
Nuclear Neurology
- Brain FDG PET CT
- Brain perfusion SPECT and SPECT CT
- Dopaminergic transporter SPECT and SPECT CT for Parkinsonism
- PET CT with other tracers (fluorodopa) for intracranial tumors
Therapy
- Outpatient treatment of hyperthyroidism with I-131
- Outpatient treatment of metastatic bone pain with radionuclides (radium, samarium, etc.)
- Radiosynovectomy for synovial joint disease
- Short-stay treatments with Lutetium
- I-131 treatments
- Hepatic radioembolization
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