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Lung scintigraphy more reliable than CTA in excluding pulmonary embolism in pregnant patients
Published in Hematology Week, November 2nd, 2009
PE, a blood clot lodged in an artery supplying the lungs, is the leading cause of maternal death in pregnancy. CTA is the imaging modality of choice for the diagnosis of PE, however lung scintigraphy, a form of radionuclide imaging that produces two-dimensional images, has shown to produce better diagnostic quality images more often than CTA in pregnant patients.
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