Yes, I wrote it. Yes, I know that fatty foods can cause an attack of bilious colic. But it happens.
This is not done out of a good life. This is done when they want to help the heart. Holy work.
Sometimes the heart is scanned with technetium. This is such a radioactive isotope. If it gets into the bloodstream, it can settle where the blood flow is stronger. For example, in a fast and beating heart.
During a scan with technetium, a person accelerates the heart with special preparations, and technetium will be deposited where the heart muscle is well supplied with blood. In places where the heart muscle is poorly supplied with blood, technetium is not deposited, and this dark zone will be visible in the picture. In this place, a heart attack may happen someday.
So this very radioactive technetium is excreted by the liver. And our heart rests on the liver. They are, of course, separated by the diaphragm, but from the outside it looks as if the heart lies on the liver.
The person lies on the couch, the heart lies on the liver, technetium lies both in the heart and in the liver. If technetium is excreted slowly, then the liver, together with the intestines, where the bile is drained, will glow like a Christmas tree on the scanner.
Behind such a radiance of pure technetium, you can not see the dark spots on the heart. Therefore, cardiologists try to expel technetium from the liver as quickly as possible. This is all the more important because technetium is radioactive. The faster it merges into the intestines and further into the environment, the less radiation the patient will receive.
To make the liver work and expel bile from it, the easiest way is to feed a person with fatty foods. The liver secretes technetium into bile. The bile is drained into the intestines and begins its journey towards the exit. Technetium sparkles less in the upper abdomen and does not obscure the heart. Everyone is happy.
