Follow-up of radial arterial catheterization for positron emission tomography studies

✍ Scribed by Peter H. Jons; Monique Ernst; James Hankerson; Kristina Hardy; Alan J. Zametkin

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 52 KB
• Volume: 5
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1065-9471
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0193(1997)5:2<119::aid-hbm5>3.0.co;2-6

✦ Synopsis

Radial arterial catheterization is needed for repeated arterial blood samples to construct tracer input curves of positron emission tomography (PET) scans : Rheum Dis Clin North Am 19:765-794). Complications resulting from such short-term catheterizations are rare. Sixteen investigators followed 106 subjects who had arterial lines placed in the context of a PET study. Abnormalities were reported in 8 of 106 (7.5%) cases. Of these eight cases, three (37.5%) were inpatients diagnosed with anorexia nervosa, a condition that may represent a risk factor. All abnormalities were benign, did not affect motor function, and did not require medical intervention.