Production of [18F]Fludeoxyglucose in Cuba

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Dianisleidys Gómez García
Reynier Espinosa Torres
Yordanka Martínez Almaguer
Leonardo García Reyes
Aily Caridad Aguiar Agramonte
Lissett Gutiérrez Hernández
Henry Reyes Pérez
Yurilma González Valdés
Hortensia Morales Arranz
Mayka Caridad Guerrero Cancio

Abstract

With the implementation of the technology in Cuba for manufacture of [18F]Fludeoxyglucose ([18F]FDG), it is incurred for the first time in the country in the production of positronic radiopharmaceuticals obtained from cyclotron.


This paper presents the productive flow design of [18F]FDG manufacture at the Specialized Center of Diagnosis and Therapy based on the guidelines established by the Good Manufacturing Practices and the Basic Norms of Radiological Security. In addition, the consistency assessment in production batches is shown, information that complemented the process validation. As a results was obtained that the production process, according to the designed flow, is able to consistently provide an injectable pharmaceutical product of the required quality and that meets its specifications.

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Gómez García, D., Espinosa Torres, R., Martínez Almaguer, Y., García Reyes, L., Aguiar Agramonte, A. C., Gutiérrez Hernández, L., Reyes Pérez, H., González Valdés, Y., Morales Arranz, H., & Guerrero Cancio, M. C. (1). Production of [18F]Fludeoxyglucose in Cuba. Nucleus, (71), 45-50. Retrieved from http://nucleus.cubaenergia.cu/index.php/nucleus/article/view/762
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Ciencias Nucleares

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