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Radiology, Vol 164, 727-730, Copyright © 1987 by Radiological Society of North America

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Pulmonary arterial hypertension: value of perfusion scintigraphy

JE Powe, HI Palevsky, KE McCarthy and A Alavi

Records of 34 patients with established causes of pulmonary arterial hypertension were retrospectively reviewed. The ventilation-perfusion scans were blindly classified according to standardized criteria as normal or high, low, or intermediate probability of pulmonary embolism as the cause of pulmonary arterial hypertension. Twelve of 13 patients with primary pulmonary hypertension had normal or low-probability scans, but the perfusion pattern was not helpful in distinguishing between histologic subtypes. All eight patients with large-vessel thromboembolic hypertension had high-probability scans; however, three of 13 patients with nonembolic secondary pulmonary hypertension also had high-probability scans. While a normal or low-probability scan excluded proximal pulmonary emboli as a cause of pulmonary hypertension, a high-probability scan may be associated with a variety of other nonembolic causes of secondary pulmonary hypertension.


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