Bone Marrow Visualization During Technetium-99m DTPA Renal Imaging in Septicemia and Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation

Abstract

A patient is presented with acute renal failure and disseminated intravascular coagulation due to Staphylococcus aureus sepsis, whose bone marrow of the lower thoracic and lumbar vertebrae and pelvis was clearly visualized in a Tc-99m DTPA renal flow study. Such visualization may be secondary to increased bone marrow blood flow associated with augmentation of hematopoeisis.