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Operating Schedule   Back to top

The NUCLEAR MEDICINE Department is open at the following schedule:

Monday-Friday     7:00 AM – 5:00 PM
        Saturday     8:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Nuclear Medicine Officers:

Lulu Paco, RMT

Senior Area Manager

June Anne Danao, RMT

Nuclear Imaging and DEXA Area Manager

Novy Barrientos, RMT

Radioimmunoassay Laboratory Area Manager

Contact Numbers Back to top

  • Trunk line: 524-3011
  • Extension numbers:
    • 2400
    • 8143

Service Description  Back to top

The Nuclear Medicine Department performs the following:

  1. Scanning procedures
    • Thyroid Scan
    • Whole Body Scan for Thyroid Cancer using Iodine-131 or Thaillium-201
    • Radioactive Iodine Uptake (RAIU)
    • Parathyroid Scan
    • Myocardial perfusion scans (Thallium-201 or Tc-99m Sestamibi
    • Bone Scan using HDP
    • Renal scan and GFR determination
    • Testicular Scan
    • Lung perfusion and ventilation scan
    • Gastrointestial bleeding scans (Tagged-RBC Scan)
    • Meckel’s diverticulum scan
    • Gastroesophageal studies
    • Scintimammography (Breast Scan)
    • Liver/Spleen Scan
    • Hepatobiliary Scan
    • Gallium Scan
    • Brain Scan
    • Bone mass densitometry (DEXA)
  2. Radionuclide therapy
    • Radioactive iodine therapy
    • Bone pain palliation in cancer patients with bone metastases
  3. Radioimmunoassay (RIA)
    RADIOIMMUNOASSAY RUNNING DAYS
    Free Triiodothyroniine (FT3) Monday-Wednesday-Friday
    Free Thyroxine (FT4) Monday-Wednesday-Friday
    Thyroglobulin Monday
    Prostate specific antigen (PSA) Monday
    Carcino embryonic Antigen CEA Thursday
    Prolactin Thursday
    Human Chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) Tuesday
    Cortisol Tuesday
    Luteinizing Hormone (LH) Thursday
    Follicle Stimulating Hormone (FSH) Thursday
    Antibody to Thyroid Peroxidase (Ab TPO) Tuesday
    Antibody to thyroglobulin (Ab Tg) Tuesday

History  Back to top

The Nuclear Medicine Physicians of Manila Doctors Hospital (MDH), whose training and credentials stem from three (3) continents, are behind every care, interpretation and management of individual patients who come or are brought to the department for diagnosis or treatment. Their learning is constant, their experience is vast and their competence is world-class.

Antonio C. Garcia, M.D. – is the chairman of the department. He is a Diplomate in both the American Board of Radiology and of the American Board of Nuclear Medicine. He completed his training at The New York Hospital-CORNELL Medical Center and at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York.

Emmanuel C. Limlingan, M.D. – is the co-chairman of the department. He, too, is a Diplomate in both Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine. He had his specialty training in Nuclear Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois and at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas.

Jerry M. Obaldo, M.D. – is the section head of Nuclear Cardiology and is administrative assistant. A diplomate in Nuclear Medicine, He had his specialty training at the prestigious Philippine Heart Center, at the Klinikum Berlin-Buch, Berlin, Germany and at the Institut fuer Nuklearmedizin der Universitaetskliniken Bonn, Bonn, Germany and at Stanford University Medical Center, CA.

Ruben V. Ogbac, M.D. - is the section head of the Osteoporosis Diagnostic Care in the Department. He is a Diplomate of Nuclear Medicine with the specialty training at the Philippine Heart Center and DEXA diagnostics.

 
Department Services  Back to top

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