Bilateral Pulmonary Thromboembolism Detected by PET Angiography in a Patient With Contraindications for Contrast Agent Imaging

A 60-year-old multi-morbid male patient with polycystic kidney disease and secondary chronic renal insufficiency stage G5 A3 according to Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) classification was referred to our hospital with radiological differential diagnoses of sarcoidosis, ectasia of the pulmonary arteries, lymphoma, or central bronchial carcinoma with contralateral hilar lymph node metastases. He had concomitant arterial hypertension, manifest osteoporosis due to renal osteopathy, secondary compensated renal hyperparathyroidism, compensated metabolic renal acidosis, and diabetes mellitus type 2.
Source: Heart, Lung and Circulation - Category: Cardiology Authors: Tags: Image Source Type: research