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Title: Perfusion lung scanning: differentiation of primary from thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension

Abstract

Of eight patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension, final diagnosis established by autopsy or angiography, four had primary hypertension and four hypertension from thromboembolism. The perfusion lung scan was distinctly different in the two groups. The lung scan in primary pulmonary hypertension was associated with nonsegmental, patchy defects of perfusion, while in thromboembolic hypertensives it was characterized by segmental and/or lobar defects of perfusion with or without subsegmental defects. The perfusion lung scan is a valuable, noninvasive study in the evaluation of the patient with pulmonary hypertension of undetermined cause and in the exclusion of occult large-vessel pulmonary thromboembolism.

Authors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
McGill Univ., Montreal, Quebec
OSTI Identifier:
5969205
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
AJR, Am. J. Roentgenol.; (United States)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 144:1
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
62 RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE; HYPERTENSION; DIAGNOSIS; LUNGS; SCINTISCANNING; ALBUMINS; EMBOLI; ISOMERIC NUCLEI; PATIENTS; TECHNETIUM 99; XENON 133; BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BODY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COUNTING TECHNIQUES; DAYS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; DISEASES; EVEN-ODD NUCLEI; HOURS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI; INTERNAL CONVERSION RADIOISOTOPES; ISOMERIC TRANSITION ISOTOPES; ISOTOPES; NUCLEI; ODD-EVEN NUCLEI; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; ORGANS; PROTEINS; RADIOISOTOPE SCANNING; RADIOISOTOPES; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; SYMPTOMS; TECHNETIUM ISOTOPES; VASCULAR DISEASES; XENON ISOTOPES; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; 550601* - Medicine- Unsealed Radionuclides in Diagnostics

Citation Formats

Lisbona, R, Kreisman, H, Novales-Diaz, J, and Derbekyan, V. Perfusion lung scanning: differentiation of primary from thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension. United States: N. p., 1985. Web. doi:10.2214/ajr.144.1.27.
Lisbona, R, Kreisman, H, Novales-Diaz, J, & Derbekyan, V. Perfusion lung scanning: differentiation of primary from thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension. United States. https://doi.org/10.2214/ajr.144.1.27
Lisbona, R, Kreisman, H, Novales-Diaz, J, and Derbekyan, V. 1985. "Perfusion lung scanning: differentiation of primary from thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension". United States. https://doi.org/10.2214/ajr.144.1.27.
@article{osti_5969205,
title = {Perfusion lung scanning: differentiation of primary from thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension},
author = {Lisbona, R and Kreisman, H and Novales-Diaz, J and Derbekyan, V},
abstractNote = {Of eight patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension, final diagnosis established by autopsy or angiography, four had primary hypertension and four hypertension from thromboembolism. The perfusion lung scan was distinctly different in the two groups. The lung scan in primary pulmonary hypertension was associated with nonsegmental, patchy defects of perfusion, while in thromboembolic hypertensives it was characterized by segmental and/or lobar defects of perfusion with or without subsegmental defects. The perfusion lung scan is a valuable, noninvasive study in the evaluation of the patient with pulmonary hypertension of undetermined cause and in the exclusion of occult large-vessel pulmonary thromboembolism.},
doi = {10.2214/ajr.144.1.27},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/5969205}, journal = {AJR, Am. J. Roentgenol.; (United States)},
number = ,
volume = 144:1,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1985},
month = {Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1985}
}