The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is alerting healthcare professionals to stop using CardioGen-82 for cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) scans due to radiation concerns. The manufacturer, Bracco Diagnostics, Inc. has decided to voluntarily recall CardioGen-82.
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Because 2 patients were found to have got much high radiation dose as the rubidium broke down into strontium which has a much longer half life and lead to the increased dosage.
because two patients were found to have got increased radiation dose as the rubidium degraded into strontium which has a longer half life and lead to the increased dose.
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