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Al-Saeedi F, Rajendran P, Tipre D, Aladwani H, Alenezi S, Alqabandi M, Alkhamis A, Redha A, Mohammad A, Ahmad F, Abdulnabi Y, Alfadhly A, Alrasheedi D. The effect of COVID-19 on nuclear medicine and radiopharmacy activities: A global survey. Sci Rep 2023; 13:10489. [PMID: 37380735 PMCID: PMC10307835 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-36925-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2022] [Accepted: 06/12/2023] [Indexed: 06/30/2023] Open
Abstract
Globally, COVID-19 affected radiopharmaceutical laboratories. This study sought to determine the economic, service, and research impacts of COVID-19 on radiopharmacy. This online survey was conducted with the participation of employees from nuclear medicine and radiopharmaceutical companies. The socioeconomic status of the individuals was collected. The study was participated by 145 medical professionals from 25 different countries. From this work, it is evident that 2-deoxy-2-[18F]fluoro-D-glucose (2-[18F]FDG), and 99mTc-labeled macro aggregated albumin 99mTc-MAA were necessary radiopharmaceuticals used by 57% (83/145and 34% (49/145;) respondents, respectively for determining how COVID infections affect a patient's body. The normal scheduling procedure for the radiopharmacy laboratory was reduced by more than half (65%; 94/145). In COVID-19, 70% (102/145) of respondents followed the regulations established by the local departments. Throughout the pandemic, there was a 97% (141/145) decrease in all staffing recruitment efforts. The field of nuclear medicine research, as well as the radiopharmaceutical industry, were both adversely affected by COVID-19.
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- Fatma Al-Saeedi
- The Department of Nuclear Medicine, College of Medicine, Kuwait University, P.O. box: 24923, 13110, Safat, Kuwait.
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- Department of Biological Sciences, College of Science, King Faisal University, AlAhsa, Saudi Arabia
- Department of Biochemistry, Saveetha Dental College & Hospitals, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences, Chennai, 600 077, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Translational Biomedical Imaging Laboratory, Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- College of Medicine, Kuwait University, P.O. box: 24923, 13110, Safat, Kuwait
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- College of Medicine, Kuwait University, P.O. box: 24923, 13110, Safat, Kuwait
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- The Department of Nuclear Medicine, College of Medicine, Kuwait University, P.O. box: 24923, 13110, Safat, Kuwait
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- College of Medicine, Kuwait University, P.O. box: 24923, 13110, Safat, Kuwait
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- College of Medicine, Kuwait University, P.O. box: 24923, 13110, Safat, Kuwait
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- College of Medicine, Kuwait University, P.O. box: 24923, 13110, Safat, Kuwait
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- College of Medicine, Kuwait University, P.O. box: 24923, 13110, Safat, Kuwait
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- College of Medicine, Kuwait University, P.O. box: 24923, 13110, Safat, Kuwait
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- College of Medicine, Kuwait University, P.O. box: 24923, 13110, Safat, Kuwait
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- College of Medicine, Kuwait University, P.O. box: 24923, 13110, Safat, Kuwait
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Ferrucci B, Ottaviano G, Rizzo A, Ubaldini A. Future development of global molybdenum-99 production and saving of atmospheric radioxenon emissions by using nuclear fusion-based approaches. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY 2022; 255:107049. [PMID: 36274505 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvrad.2022.107049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2022] [Revised: 10/12/2022] [Accepted: 10/14/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Technetium-99m, the decay product of molybdenum-99, is the most used medical isotope in diagnostic imaging. The future disruptions of molybdenum-99 supply, due to the final shut down of some old producing reactors, has led some current global supplies to plan the expansion of their production capacity. While other countries are developing own production facilities to supply their domestic demand. The global increase of molybdenum-99 production in the coming years could increase by about five times the current demand, with about the 50 percent of additional production in North America. Xenon radionuclides are an inevitable by-product of the nuclear plants production, and their periodically release into the atmosphere, contribute to the background that is also revealed by the IMS stations of the CBTO treaty. In this framework, the development of new technologies, posing no risk in relation to nuclear proliferation and do not result in emissions of radioxenon, could mitigate the issues related to the forecast increase of molybdenum-99 production worldwide. In Italy, an alternative 99Mo production project, the project ENEA Sorgentina, based on the irradiation of molybdenum by neutrons produced by a deuterium-tritium nuclear fusion process, is under development. This facility will not release radioxenon into the atmosphere, so it will not affect the background value in the atmosphere in Southern Europe.
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Minamimoto R. Oncology and cardiology positron emission tomography/computed tomography faced with COVID-19: A review of available literature data. Front Med (Lausanne) 2022; 9:1052921. [DOI: 10.3389/fmed.2022.1052921] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2022] [Accepted: 10/07/2022] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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The COVID-19 pandemic has forced people to significantly change their lifestyles and attitudes, and has greatly burdened healthcare delivery systems worldwide. The redistribution of the medical delivery system to maintain normal medical care while responding generously to COVID-19 is a continuing challenge that weighs heavily on medical institutions. Among imaging modalities, chest X-rays and computed tomography (CT) examinations have clearly made a large contribution to treatment of COVID-19. In contrast, it is difficult to express the standpoint of nuclear medicine examinations in a straightforward manner, as the greatest emphasis in this modality has been on how necessary medical care can continue to be provided. Many clinical reports of nuclear medicine examinations related to COVID-19 have been published, and knowledge continues to accumulate. This review provides a summary of the current state of oncology and cardiology positron emission tomography (PET) examinations related to COVID-19, and includes preparation of the nuclear medicine department, trends in PET examinations, specific imaging findings on 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) PET/CT, imaging of complications of COVID-19, PET tracers other than FDG, and the effects of vaccines on PET imaging findings.
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Graham R, Moreira AP, Glaudemans AWJM, Jensen LT, Mihaïlovic J, Nazarenko S, Ozcan Z, Piciu D, Wadsak W, Kunikowska J, Jamar F. 2022 follow-up: impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on nuclear medicine departments in Europe. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 2022; 49:3309-3315. [PMID: 35737024 PMCID: PMC9218047 DOI: 10.1007/s00259-022-05881-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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- Richard Graham
- Radiology Department, Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust, Bath, UK
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- Nuclear Medicine Department, Centro Hospitalar E Universitário de Coimbra and Institute for Nuclear Sciences Applied to Health, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, University Hospital Groningen and University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Herlev Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Herlev, Denmark
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- Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia
- Centre of Nuclear Medicine, Oncology Institute of Vojvodina, Sremska Kamenica, Serbia
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- Department of Health Technologies, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Ege University School of Medicine, Izmir, Turkey
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- Nuclear Medicine Department, Institute of Oncology and University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca-Napoca, Romania
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- Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-Guided Therapy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Nuclear Medicine Department, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc and Institute for Experimental and Clinical Research (IREC), UCLouvain, Avenue Hippocrate, 10, B-1200 Brussels, Belgium
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Treglia G. Nuclear Medicine During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Show Must Go On. Front Med (Lausanne) 2022; 9:896069. [PMID: 35646988 PMCID: PMC9133530 DOI: 10.3389/fmed.2022.896069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2022] [Accepted: 03/30/2022] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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- Giorgio Treglia
- Clinic of Nuclear Medicine, Imaging Institute of Southern Switzerland, Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale, Bellinzona, Switzerland.,Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland.,Academic Education, Research and Innovation Area, General Directorate, Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale, Bellinzona, Switzerland.,Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.,Faculty of Biomedical Sciences, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland
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