Journal article
Clinical Outcome of Patients With a 'Low Probability' of Pulmonary Embolism on Ventilation-Perfusion Lung Scan
Archives of internal medicine (1960), Vol.149(2), pp.377-379
02/01/1989
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.1989.00390020091019
PMID: 2916882
Abstract
• Lung ventilation and perfusion (V/Q) scintigraphy is usually indicated when pulmonary embolism (PE) is a suspected diagnosis. Typically, V/Q scintigraphic interpretation is reported as a "normal," "low," "intermediate," or "high probability" of PE. Although a "low probability" interpretation does not exclude the diagnosis of PE, it significantly reduces the likelihood. We retrospectively analyzed up to one year of follow-up in 90 patients who were clinically suspected of having PE, but in whom V/Q scintigraphy implied a low probability of PE. None of the 90 patients demonstrated clinical evidence of PE subsequent to the V/Q scan. Our findings suggest that significant pulmonary embolism is uncommon and that the clinical course appears to be predictable in patients with a low probability V/Q scan.(Arch Intern Med 1989;149:377-379)
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Clinical Outcome of Patients With a 'Low Probability' of Pulmonary Embolism on Ventilation-Perfusion Lung Scan
- Creators
- Daniel KahnDavid L BushnellRobert DeanScott B Perlman
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Archives of internal medicine (1960), Vol.149(2), pp.377-379
- DOI
- 10.1001/archinte.1989.00390020091019
- PMID
- 2916882
- NLM abbreviation
- Arch Intern Med
- ISSN
- 0003-9926
- eISSN
- 1538-3679
- Publisher
- American Medical Association
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 02/01/1989
- Academic Unit
- Radiology
- Record Identifier
- 9984051991402771
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