ArticlePediatric radiology2025
Premedication in pediatric Meckel scintigraphy: pantoprazole versus ranitidine for optimizing scan quality.
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- Comparative evaluation of pregnancy-related adverse events associated with proton pump inhibitors using the FDA adverse event reporting system database.International journal of clinical pharmacy · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe standard method for diagnosing Meckel diverticulum and identifying ectopic gastric mucosa is
objectiveAfter the withdrawal of ranitidine, we compared the efficacy of the proton pump inhibitor pantoprazole as an alternative premedication agent for MATERIALS AND
methodsThis study assessed the scan quality of 141 children (aged 1 month to 204 months (median = 84 months)) who underwent Meckel scintigraphy over 10 years at a single institution. Before its withdrawal in December 2020, ranitidine was utilized for premedication, while pantoprazole was used thereafter. Therefore, patients were divided into two premedication groups: ranitidine (n = 88) and pantoprazole (n = 53). A high-quality scan was defined as having no
resultsPremedication with pantoprazole resulted in 47.2% of scans showing no
conclusionThis study demonstrates that pantoprazole is statistically non-inferior to ranitidine regarding scan quality and lesion-to-background activity ratios for Meckel diverticulum detection. Pantoprazole offers a reliable alternative for clinical protocols in the absence of ranitidine.
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