ArticleJournal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine2022
Lung Scintigraphy for Pulmonary Embolism Diagnosis in COVID-19 Patients: A Multicenter Study.
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- SPECT/CT Scan Images to Evaluate COVID-19 Pulmonary Complications: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Pooled it
- Perfusion-only Q-SPECT as a rule-out tool for CTEPH in resource-limited settings: a feasibility study on reducing unnecessary referrals to tertiary centers.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2026Article
- Interest of ventilation/perfusion SPECT/CT in patients with post-COVID condition: a multicenter observational study.European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging · 2025Observational
- How necessary it is to perform a ventilation scan in patients with a history of COVID-19 to rule out pulmonary thromboembolism?Asia Oceania journal of nuclear medicine & biology · 2025Article
- The Clinical Utility of Molecular Imaging in COVID-19: An Update.Seminars in nuclear medicine · 2023Review
- Lung Ventilation/Perfusion Scintigraphy for the Screening of Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension (CTEPH): Which Criteria to Use?Frontiers in medicine · 2022Article
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Abstract
In patients with novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) referred for lung scintigraphy because of suspected pulmonary embolism (PE), there has been an ongoing debate within the nuclear medicine community as to whether and when the ventilation imaging should be performed. Indeed, whereas PE diagnosis typically relies on the recognition of ventilation-perfusion (V/P) mismatched defects, the ventilation procedure potentially increases the risk of contamination to health-care workers. The primary aim of this study was to assess the role of ventilation imaging when lung scintigraphy is performed because of suspected PE in COVID-19 patients. The secondary aim was to describe practices and imaging findings in this specific population.
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