How often suspected pulmonary embolism is diagnosed and its main diagnostic characteristics, in an emergency nuclear medicine service? Four years experience.

CONCLUSION: Lung perfusion scintigraphy could early diagnose APE in 16.7% of the cases (referred to our Nuclear Medicine Emergency Service) and exclude APE in 83.3% of these cases. Immediate treatment or release of these patients from the emergency department was thus possible. LPS has a key role in the early diagnosis but even more in exclusion of APE, optimizing the management of patients who do not require admission to intensive care. Our four-year and large-scale experience, based on clinical and resource optimization, support the need of Nuclear Medicine Units to perform LPS as emergency in on-call 24 hrs service. PMID: 31587028 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Hellenic Journal of Nuclear Medicine - Category: Nuclear Medicine Tags: Hell J Nucl Med Source Type: research