Dr. Richard John Campeau MD
Nuclear Medicine Specialist
5316 Dryades St New Orleans LA, 70115About
Dr. Richard Campeau practices Nuclear Medicine in New Orleans, LA. Dr. Campeau uses procedures and treatments that apply molecular imaging and molecular therapy. Nuclear Medicine Physicians are trained and certified to provide such procedures as skeletal imaging, glucose metabolic imaging, brain perfusion, blood pool imaging, and thyroid imaging, among many others.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Vasodilator stress myocardial perfusion examination discrepancy with coronary angiography: clarification with intravascular ultrasound.
- Laparoscopic nonanatomic hepatic resection employing the LigaSure device.
- Extracorporeal shock-wave lithotripsy and ursodiol versus ursodiol alone in the treatment of gallstones.
- False-positive Tl-201 SPECT studies in patients with left bundle branch block: frequency and clinical significance.
- Detection of myocardial viability [correction of validity].
- Intracoronary administration of autologous adipose tissue-derived stem cells improves left ventricular function, perfusion, and remodelling after acute myocardial infarction.
- Aortic aneurysm detected by 99mTc-pyrophosphate imaging: case report.
- Aortic aneurysm detected by 99mTc-pyrophosphate imaging: case report.
- Pheochromocytoma: diagnosis by scintigraphy using iodine 131 metaiodobenzylguanidine.
- Pheochromocytoma associated with prior carotid body tumors (chemodectomas). Detection with I-131 MIBG.
- Pectoralis muscle uptake of thallium-201 after arm exercise ergometry. Possible confusion with lung thallium-201 activity.
- Bone and liver imaging in regionally advanced melanoma.
- An unusual ventilation perfusion scintigram in a case of immunologic pulmonary edema clinically simulating pulmonary embolism.
- The "pseudo-pseudoaneurysm". Left ventricular pseudoaneurysm mimicked by ectopic spleen.
- Hypothesis: dietary management may improve survival from nutritionally linked cancers based on analysis of representative cases.
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