Sensitivity and specificity of perfusion scintigraphy combined with chest radiography for acute pulmonary embolism in PIOPED II

HD Sostman, M Miniati, A Gottschalk… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2008 - Soc Nuclear Med
We used the archived Prospective Investigation of Pulmonary Embolism Diagnosis II
(PIOPED II) data and images to test the hypothesis that reading perfusion scans with chest …

Acute Pulmonary Embolism: Sensitivity and Specificity of Ventilation-Perfusion Scintigraphy in PIOPED II Study1

HD Sostman, PD Stein, A Gottschalk, F Matta, R Hull… - Radiology, 2008 - pubs.rsna.org
Purpose: To use Prospective Investigation of Pulmonary Embolism Diagnosis (PIOPED) II
data to retrospectively determine sensitivity and specificity of ventilation-perfusion (V/Q) …

Perfusion lung scintigraphy for the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism: a reappraisal and review of the prospective investigative study of acute pulmonary embolism …

M Miniati, HD Sostman, A Gottschalk, S Monti… - Seminars in nuclear …, 2008 - Elsevier
In this article, we review the evolution of scintigraphy for the diagnosis of acute pulmonary
embolism (PE). We begin with perfusion (Q) scintigraphy, review the development of …

The current and continuing important role of ventilation-perfusion scintigraphy in evaluating patients with suspected pulmonary embolism

LM Freeman, EG Stein, S Sprayregen… - Seminars in nuclear …, 2008 - Elsevier
After the publication of the Prospective Investigation of Pulmonary Embolism Detection
(PIOPED) study in 1990, there was considerable controversy concerning the ventilation …

Evaluation of revised criteria for ventilation-perfusion scintigraphy in patients with suspected pulmonary embolism.

HD Sostman, RE Coleman, DM DeLong, GE Newman… - Radiology, 1994 - pubs.rsna.org
PURPOSE: To evaluate the accuracy of the revised PIOPED (Prospective Investigation of
Pulmonary Embolism Diagnosis) criteria for categorization of ventilation-perfusion lung …

Overview of prospective investigation of pulmonary embolism diagnosis II

A Gottschalk, PD Stein, LR Goodman… - Seminars in nuclear …, 2002 - Elsevier
The Prospective Investigation of Pulmonary Embolism Diagnosis II (PIOPED II) is a
prospective multicenter study funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute which …

Diagnostic imaging of acute pulmonary embolism.

F Christiansen - Acta radiologica. Supplementum, 1997 - europepmc.org
The common strategy of combining clinical information, lung scintigraphy and pulmonary
angiography in the diagnosis of acute pulmonary embolism (PE), has many limitations in …

Pulmonary scintigraphy for the diagnosis of acute pulmonary embolism: a survey of current practices in Australia, Canada, and France

PY Le Roux, M Pelletier-Galarneau… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2015 - Soc Nuclear Med
There are currently no data published regarding the proportion of nuclear medicine centers
using SPECT or SPECT/CT rather than planar ventilation/perfusion (V/Q) imaging in patients …

The utility of hybrid SPECT/CT lung perfusion scintigraphy in pulmonary embolism diagnosis

A Mazurek, M Dziuk, E Witkowska-Patena, S Piszczek… - Respiration, 2015 - karger.com
Background: Pulmonary embolism (PE) is diagnosed either by ventilation/perfusion (V/Q)
scintigraphy or pulmonary CT angiography. One of the imaging methods used in nuclear …

Is a lung perfusion scan obtained by using single photon emission computed tomography able to improve the radionuclide diagnosis of pulmonary embolism?

JP Collart, V Roelants, D Vanpee… - Nuclear medicine …, 2002 - journals.lww.com
Planar pulmonary scintigraphy is still regularly performed for the evaluation of pulmonary
embolism (PE). However, only about 50-80% of cases can be resolved by this approach …