Lagos University Teaching Hospital LUTH
said they have acquired a CT scan
equipment that has the capacity to run a
check on all organs of the body, from head to
toe in less than 10 seconds and fish out a
patients death points for immediate
treatment. The machine, called the 128-slice
Aquillon CT scanner is the first of it's kind in
West Africa.
Speaking on the machine, the Chief Medical
Director, LUTH, Professor Akin Osibogun
told Nigerian Tribune:
"The Aquillon CT scanner is a 128-
scanner and the main advantage it has
over other CT scanners of earlier
generations is its ability to penetrate
deeper into the tissues and organs to
show clearly the state of those tissues
and organs. Of course the CT scanner is
an imaging device and because it is
able to provide images of tissues and
organs inside the body. We are able to
see the state in which those tissues and
organs are and we are able to make
diagnosis that help us to provide
appropriate treatment for the patients.
"Earlier generations CT scanners are of
course far better in terms of diagnostic
capability than the x-ray because they
provide clearer definitions than the x-ray but
moving to a 128-slice CT scanner, in fact,
that it is in terms of where current
knowledge is, with regards to ability to get
clearer images of tissues and organs that are
internal to the body and therefore we are
able to make better diagnosis. A further
advantage of the 128-CT scanner is its speed
with which it works and that means it is able
to capture parts of the body that are in
motion.
“So the Aquillon CT scanner is a very fast
machine, able to pick items in motion and
that advantage enables us now to study even
the heart as it is beating and as it is
pumping out blood, so we are able to study
the arteries, the veins as the blood flow
through them, so if there is a thin blockage
or a blockage is developing, the scanner is
able to pick it.”
“So in coronary heart disease for instance,
the scanner is a vast advantage over other
imaging devices because we are able to pick
them up early and we can then advise that
patient on dietary changes or whatever
changes that are necessary and if you have
the capability, you can actually combine it
with what we called interventional
cardiology.
“You can remove small plague or small
particles that are already forming on the
way. It is just simply by introducing a
catheter, you guide the catheter under the
imaging device and go to where you want to
go and remove what you want to remove,
without opening the chest. The CT scanner
can be combined to some extent with the
interventional cardiology which we would
introduce at a latter point. At this point
because we just acquired the equipment, we
will be using it largely for diagnostic
methods to pick disease conditions and do
that in a more precise manner.”
Commenting about possible kidney
transplant in Nigeria, LUTH Chief MD said
that the procedure was possible at the
hospital with just N3 million but the donor
must be a relative of the patient.
“Maybe if you help us make that public, that
all they need to do, is to bring a relative who
is willing to donate kidneys to them and with
N3 million, we work them up, carry out the
transplant and follow them up” he stated

so the rate of medical tourism is going to reduce.

akorlade: so the rate of medical tourism is going to reduce.

Hopefully

Technology pls were are thou taking us too?

Dats technology at work

the poster should grab a copy of Dele Ashade's popular book on Use of English sharpaly. Thanks for the update though

pumpingmachine: the poster should grab a copy of Dele Ashade's popular book on Use of English sharpaly. Thanks for the update though

Why not correct me ? ITK

I think the topic is misleading, I was about commenting that "If it's going to tell u or inform you about your death 20secs before the death? Then it's of no need, because before the doctor can gather himself and inform you bout the news, you are already dead"


Well back to the topic? "I think it meant that it can detect major tissues in oda to avoid death and the scam can be performed within 20secs.!!!