SMVD Narayana Hospital introduces Nuclear Medicine

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, July 17: As part of its endeavor to continually improve clinical and diagnostic services, SMVD Narayana Super-Specialty Hospital introduces Nuclear Medicine.
SMVD Narayana Hospital is now capable of providing the most advanced form of diagnosis and can accurately determine the severity of a variety of diseases, including many types of cancers, heart disease, lungs and stomach, endocrine, brain and nerve disorders and other abnormalities within the body.
There are several diagnosis including Thyrotoxicosis, one of the disorders from thyroiditis (group of disorders that all cause thyroidal inflammation) that can be found only through this stream of medical science.
Similarly, detailed diagnosis of how well blood is flowing through heart muscles, cortical defects in the brain, kidney and liver function, flow of contents in the stomach, lymph node mapping, evaluating the severity of a variety of bone diseases and conditions, including fractures, infection, and cancer, circulation of air and blood in the lungs; enable doctors to take a precise and minimally invasive surgical approach. These capabilities also help patients avail end-to-end advanced clinical services across specialties under one roof at an affordable cost.
Dr Rohit Kumar, Consultant- Nuclear Medicine, said, “The functional information provided by nuclear medicine examinations is unique and currently unattainable through other imaging procedures. Overall efficiency also increases as patients spend less time during the process as scans can be set-up faster, including automated transitions and more importantly, the whole experience is far less traumatic for patients”.