It involves the intense analysis of the patients’ afflicted organs at the cellular level, where a developing disease is diagnosed before there happens any transformation at its structural level. This unique characteristic makes Nuclear medicine a much more physiologic and more sensitive than any other diagnostic procedure among a range of various clinical situations.

With the technological wonder named – Dual Head Gamma Camera,
the Department of Nuclear Medicine at Yashoda Super Specialty Hospitals exhibits the ability to provide high – quality diagnostic & treatment services in an extremely professional and prominent environment. Utilizing only small amounts of radioactive isotopes (or tracers or radionuclides) as in medical jargon, we can help not only diagnose but treat a diverse pool of diseases.

While the diagnostic techniques such as the X – Ray, Ultrasound or any other diagnostic test determines the presence of anomaly constructed on the structural appearance, Nuclear medicine regulates the cause of the medical problem based on the function of patient’s organ, tissue or bone.

We at Yashoda, take immense pride in being the sole service provider of Nuclear Medicine in the entire Western Uttar Pradesh & Uttarakhand.

Following are some major applications of Nuclear Medicine:

Cardiac Applications:

• Detection of Coronary Artery Disease (CAD)
• Measuring effectiveness of bypass surgery & therapy for heart
• Cardiac failure
• Selecting patients for bypass or angioplasty
• Identifying surgical patients at critically high risk for a possibility of a heart attack
• Valvular heart disease evaluation
• Identification and quantification of shunts
• Diagnosing and localizing acute heart attacks

Oncological Applications:

• Tumor localization
• Tumor staging
• Identifying metastatic sites
• Judging response to therapy
• Relieving bone pain caused by cancer

Renal Applications:

• Detection of urinary tract obstruction
• Diagnosing renovascular hypertension
• Measurement of differential renal function
• Detecting pyelonephritis & renal scars

Neurological Applications:

• Stroke
• Diagnosing multi-infarct dementia
• Evaluation of post-concussion syndrome
• Localizing seizure FOC
• Evaluating patients for carotid surgery
• Alzheimer’s disease

Pulmonary Applications:

• Quantifying lung ventilation and perfusion
• Diagnosing pulmonary emboli
• Detection of inhalation injury in burn patients

Orthopedic Applications:

• Identifying bone infarcts
• Identifying occult bone trauma
• Diagnosing osteomyelitis
• Evaluation of arthritic changes and extent
• Measuring extent of certain tumors
• Localizing sites for tumor biopsy
• Therapeutic applications like I – 131 Radioiodine therapy

Advantages appended with the usage of Nuclear Medicine:

Nuclear medicine is adequately efficient to diagnose and treat diseases in a secured and painless manner. It involves the use of high – end computers and cameras and small doses of permitted radioactive substances introduced into the patient’s body; either by injection, oral, or inhalation. Identifying sites of seizures (epilepsy), Parkinson’s disease, and Alzheimer’s disease, early detection of neurodegenerative disorders, myocardial disorder, etc. has enhanced to a much lesser time consuming procedure.

Safe, uncomplicated performance, non-invasive and imparts minimal radiation, Nuclear medicine also has a therapeutic aspect to it. This application majorly necessitates the administration of those radionuclides which radiate alpha and beta particles; both these aforementioned particles, when localized to the respective target areas, obliterate the entire disease oriented process from within

Drawing sharp contrasts from the conventional Radiotherapy and / or Chemotherapy, Nuclear medicine causes only the minutest damage to the untargeted organs of the patient’s body. While observing the most neoteric development in the domain of Nuclear medicine, therapies such as ‘Labeled Micro Spheres Therapy” (for diagnosing & treating cancer lesions in the liver) and “Radio – labeled Targeted Antibody Therapy” hold exciting future!