Centro poliklinika

Nuclear magnetic resonance tomography consulting room

   The nuclear magnetic resonance tomograph singles out by its large diagnostical revealing capacity. This method of examination has been used in Lithuania since the year 1997. The colleagues of the Kaunas Medical University Clinics, of the Santariskes Clinics of the Vilnius University Hospital and of the Klaipeda Hospital have been using the similar one (of the closed type) within already several years.
  
   The tomograph, used in the polyclinic Centro Poliklinika is an open-type tomograph, with the capacity of 0,2 teslas; it’s the only one in Lithuania.
   The most complicated pathologies are diagnosed for the patients of various age with the help of the nuclear magnetic resonance tomography, biopsies of the human organs’ specimens are done, alterations of the head’s and spinal column’s structures are ascertained, etc.
  
   The nuclear magnetic resonance tomography is the most precise and the most reliable method, meant for early diagnosing of the spread sclerosis, hydromyelia, syringomyelia and other diseases, which are difficultly revealed. The examination is more sensitive than the computer tomography, seeking to diagnose the tumours and the level of their dissemination (the 0,3-0,5 cm tumours are diagnosed in the course of the examination). This examination is done, if all the investigative methods are insufficiently informative and it’s necessary to make the diagnosis more precise.

   The following doctors work in the nuclear magnetic resonance tomography consulting room:

 Advantages of the open-type MR:

   is meant for

examination of the whole body, for the orthopedic, neuro and angiographical examination with or without the contrast medium;

   the family members may participate together with the patient in the course of the investigation;

   provides more comfort for the patient (adults and children);

   the patients, who are ill with claustrophobia, can be examined;

MR absolute indications:

   intracranial pathology (the primary tumours and metastasis in the brain, ischemic and hemorrhagic infarctions of the brain, infectious diseases, in-born anomalies, blood-vessels pathology, demyelinating diseases of the central nervous system, traumas, intracranial hypertension and hydrocephalus, degenerative diseases of the brain, post-operational complications);

   the spinal cord and pathology of the spinal column (the primary tumours in the spinal cord, metastases, syringomyelia and cysts of various origin, demyelinating diseases, myelopathies of various origin, including inflammatory processes, degenerative alterations of the spinal column (vertebras and intervertebral disks), inborn anomalies, traumatic alterations and post-operational conditions small multiple fractures);

   pathology of the joints (splitting of the menisci and ligaments, inflammation)

   angiography is the non-invasional examination of the blood vessels, permitting to visualize the blood-vessels (arteries and veins) and vein sinuses. Reconstructions of the blood vessels can be observed in various flats; it helps to fix precisely the location of alteration, the relation with the surrounding structures, to diagnose occlusion of the large arteries at the early stage of the ischemic stroke (2-48 hours), to diagnose the 3 mm and larger aneurisms.

   Relational indications - the patients’ sensibility towards the iodine preparations, if it’s impossible to do the computer tomography examination, using the contrast media.
  
The nuclear magnetic resonance tomography examination shall not be done, if your body contains:

the heart stimulator or hypodermic defibrillator;

staples for the brain blood vessels or metal plates after the neurosurgical operations;

metal staples in the other places of the body;

artificial heart valves and implants of the blood vessels, eyes and ears;

metal implants, used for treatment of the bone fractures and after the operations on the spinal column;

intrauterine helixes (only for women), the first trimester of pregnancy;

weight, exceeding 130 kg.