Scintigraphy

Once the presence of pulmonary hypertension has been established, lung ventilation-perfusion (V/Q) scan is the noninvasive method of choice for the distinction of major-vessel CTEPH and PPH (6). The V/Q scan in CTEPH typically shows multiple segmental or larger perfusion defects in areas of normal ventilation, in contrast to the normal or mottled low-probability scan in PPH. Since there is often only partial vascular obstruction in CTEPH, there may be grey zones, and the lung perfusion scan can underestimate the degree of vascular obstruction. On the other hand, a normal or low probability V/Q scan virtually excludes surgical accessible CTEPH.

 

 


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Next SSPH Workshop: October 28th, 2010
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SSPH Workshop 2010: May 7-8, 2010

The SSPH workshop on May 7-8, 2010 in Lucerne did consist of an update of the website with the following topics:

  • Diagnosis
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  • Follow-up
  • Patients part

Many thanks to all the participants: The workshop from 7-8 May 2010 was a succesfull event, a lot of precious work has been done. Adaptations of the website content will soon be online.

 

4th international Congress of the SSPH

October 30 - 31, 2009



Link to the congress presentations as video streaming on swiss-webconferencing.ch .

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