Friday, January 12, 2007 PSH offers comprehensive nuclear medicine services
PERPETUAL Succour Hospital (PSH) marks another milestone in medical service through their comprehensive services in nuclear medicine.
Nuclear medicine is decidedly an all-encompassing specialty, very much an integral part of a tertiary health care facility like PSH. Nuclear medicine provides diagnostic tools to help any branch of medicine. PSH offers all aspects of nuclear medicine available like imaging, radioimmunoassay and radioactive iodine therapy for toxic goiter and thyroid cancer.
They have comprehensive scans to detect certain diseases: renal scan (kidney), myocardial perfusion imaging (blood supply distribution of the heart muscles), pulmonary perfusion/ventilation scan (acute pulmonary embolism), GI-bleeding scan (bleeding in the intestinal tract), gastro-esophageal reflux scan (heart burn), gastro-esophageal scan or milk scan (chronic lung problems in infants), gastric emptying scan (stomach digestion), hepato-biliary scan or HIDA Scan (biliary atresia characterized by persistent jaundice), and dexa scan (bone density to detect osteoporosis).
PSH is located at the 8th floor of the SPC Medical Specialty Center, Gorordo Ave., Lahug, Cebu City.
