PMID: 9171966May 1, 1997Paper

Prediction of post-operative cardiopulmonary function using perfusion scintigraphy in patients with bronchogenic carcinoma

Clinical Physiology
K R LarsenB N Petersen

Abstract

Both ventilation and perfusion scintigraphy are accurate predictors of post-operative ventilatory function. Previous attempts to predict post-operative exercise capacity after lung resection using radioisotope scintigraphy are few and results are conflicting. We studied 32 patients before and 6 months after pulmonary resection for bronchogenic carcinoma to assess the value of lung perfusion scintigraphy for the prediction of post-operative forced lung volumes and parameters on maximum exercise, including maximum ventilation and maximum oxygen uptake. Nine patients were lost to follow-up, and these patients differed from the reinvestigated patients only in the staging of the pulmonary carcinoma and not in preoperative lung function or exercise capacity. We found a clear relationship between the values predicted from a preoperative perfusion scintigraphy, spirometry and a maximum exercise study and the observed values measured 6 months post-operatively. The method underestimated the post-operative values of both spirometric and exercise measurements, especially in the higher range. Only in a few cases were the post-operative observed values less than the predicted values, and in these cases the difference was without clinical sig...Continue Reading

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