Product Information

Please see TGA Section 19A-approved medicine Technescan PYP 20mg sodium pyrophosphate decahydrate kit for radiopharmaceutical preparation (Netherlands)

DESCRIPTION

This Kit consists of sterile, pyrogen free lyophilised ingredients which need reconstitution with sodium chloride injection. Reconstituted PYP Radpharm is a diagnostic pharmaceutical administered by intravenous injection and is suitable for blood pool imaging.

CONTENTS & PRESENTATION

PYP Radpharm is supplied as a carton of 5 sterile, pyrogen free, vacuum sealed multidose 8 mL vials. Each vial contains 30 mg sodium pyrophosphate and 9 mg stannous chloride anhydrous (5.6 mg stannous ion) as a lyophilised powder. The product contains no preservatives.

CONTRAINDICATIONS

Technetium-99m with a physical half life of 6 hours decays by isomeric transition to technetium-99. Photons associated with this transition that are useful for detection and imaging studies are in Table 1.