Technetium Tc-99m Mertiatide Kit: uses, dosing, side effects & brands
Technetium Tc-99m Mertiatide Kit is a medicine sold in the U.S. under one brand. Below: what the FDA label says, every product that contains it, what the pills look like, and its recall record.
Key facts
- Available as
- Injectable
- Sold as
- Technetium Tc 99m Mertiatide Kit
- Prescription?
- Prescription only
- Generic available?
- Not in our catalog
How technetium tc-99m mertiatide kit is dosed
From the FDA label for Technetium Tc 99m Mertiatide Kit (application NDA216820). Other technetium tc-99m mertiatide kit products — different forms, different strengths — are dosed differently. Follow the label for the one you were prescribed.
Instruct patients to drink a sufficient amount of water before administration and continue to drink and to void frequently following administration. ( 2.2 ) Recommended dose in adult patients:185 MBq to 370 MBq (5 mCi to 10 mCi) as an intravenous bolus injection. ( 2.3 ) Recommended dose in pediatric patients aged 30 days and older: 2.6 MBq/kg to 5.2 MBq/kg (0.07 mCi/kg to 0.14 mCi/kg) with a minimum dose of 37 MBq (1 mCi) as an intravenous bolus injection. ( 2.3 ) See Full Prescribing Information for radiation safety, drug preparation, administration, and radiation dosimetry information. ( 2.1 , 2.4 , 2.5 , 2.6 , 2.7 ) 2.1 Radiation Safety – Drug Handling After radiolabeling, the kit produces Technetium Tc 99m Mertiatide Injection. Handle Technetium Tc 99m Mertiatide Injection with appropriate safety measures to minimize radiation exposure [see Warnings and Precautions ( 5.1 )] . Use waterproof gloves, effective radiation shielding, and other appropriate safety measures when preparing and handling Technetium Tc 99m Mertiatide Injection. Radiopharmaceuticals should be used by or under the control of healthcare providers who are qualified by specific training and experience in the safe use and handling of radionuclides, and whose experience and training have been approved by the appropriate governmental agency authorized to license the use of radionuclides. 2.2 Patient…
Technetium Tc-99m Mertiatide Kit side effects
The following adverse reactions associated with the use of Technetium Tc 99m Mertiatide Injection were identified in clinical studies or postmarketing reports. Because some of these reactions are voluntarily reported from a population of uncertain size, it is not always possible to reliably estimate their frequency or establish a causal relationship to drug exposure. Cardiac disorders : tachycardia. Gastrointestinal disorders : nausea, vomiting. General disorders and administration site conditions : shaking chills, fever. Nervous system disorders : seizure. Respiratory, thoracic and mediastinal disorders : wheezing, dyspnea. Skin and subcutaneous tissue disorders : itching, rash. Vascular disorders : elevation in blood pressure. Reported adverse reactions are: tachycardia, nausea, vomiting, shaking chills, fever, seizure, wheezing, dyspnea, itching, rash, and elevation in blood pressure. ( 6 ) To report SUSPECTED ADVERSE REACTIONS, contact Jubilant DraxImage Inc. at 1-888-633-5343 or FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088 or www.fda.gov/medwatch.
Who shouldn’t take technetium tc-99m mertiatide kit
None. None. (4)
Every technetium tc-99m mertiatide kit product we track (1)
Same active ingredient — different manufacturer, form, price and FDA recall record. That last one is what our independent score measures.
Only one: Technetium Tc 99m Mertiatide Kit.
What people report to the FDA about technetium tc-99m mertiatide kit
The FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) collects reports from patients and clinicians. It holds 1 reports naming technetium tc-99m mertiatide kit, and the FDA flagged 100% of those reports as serious. The effects reported most often — leaving out reports about overdose, misuse or the condition being treated, which dominate the raw list for common medicines:
- respiratory arrest1 reports
- seizure1 reports
Read these as a signal, not a rate. A report does not mean technetium tc-99m mertiatide kit caused the effect — anyone can file one, and many describe people taking several medicines for several conditions. Crucially there is no denominator: FAERS does not record how many people took the drug, so these counts cannot be turned into “X% of patients” — a bigger number often just means a more widely used or more talked-about drug. Duplicates exist, and publicity drives reporting. For what is actually established, read the FDA label section above.
Source: openFDA drug/event (FAERS), retrieved July 26, 2026.
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Frequently asked questions
What is technetium tc-99m mertiatide kit?
Technetium Tc 99m Mertiatide Kit (Technetium Tc-99m Mertiatide Kit) is a medication supplied as an injection, powder, lyophilized, for solution.
Can you take technetium tc-99m mertiatide kit with other medicines?
It depends on the medicine. We check it against the FDA labels rather than guessing: our interaction checker searches each drug's own label for the other and quotes what it says, naming the section it came from. Run technetium tc-99m mertiatide kit against whatever else you take — and remember that a label not naming a drug is not the same as that combination being safe.
What forms does technetium tc-99m mertiatide kit come in?
Across the brands we track, technetium tc-99m mertiatide kit is currently marketed as injectable, per the FDA's National Drug Code Directory. Each form is dosed differently — follow the label for the exact product you were prescribed.
Is there a generic technetium tc-99m mertiatide kit?
We do not currently list a generic-labelled technetium tc-99m mertiatide kit product. That does not always mean none exists — it means none appears under a generic name in the FDA data we track. Ask your pharmacist.
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We summarise public FDA and NIH sources — for a clinical claim, cite the primary source we link to as well.
Sources: FDA openFDA drug label, National Drug Code Directory, and Enforcement (recall) database. This page reproduces public FDA data and is not medical advice. Dosing is set by your prescriber.
Read the full FDA label for technetium tc-99m mertiatide kit on DailyMed (NIH) ↗.