BackgroundPersistent dyspnea is frequent in post-COVID patients, even in the absence of pulmonary embolism (PE). In this scenario, the role of lung perfusion scintigraphy is unclear. The present study correlated scintigraphy-based semiquantitative perfusion parameters with chest high-resolution computed tomography (hrCT) volumetric indexes and clinical data in post-COVID patients with persistent dyspnea.Research design and methodsSixty patients (30 post-COVID and 30 not previously affected by COVID-19) with persistent dyspnea submitted to lung perfusion scintigraphy and hrCT were retrospectively recruited. Perfusion rates of the pulmonary fields and hrCT-based normalized inflated, emphysematous, infiltrated, collapsed, and vascular lung volumes were calculated. Inflammatory and coagulation biomarkers were collected. PE at imaging was an exclusion criterion.ResultsCompared to controls, reduced perfusion rates of the lower pulmonary fields and higher perfusion rates of the middle ones were observed in post-COVID patients, while hrCT findings were superimposable between the two groups. Perfusion rates of lower pulmonary fields were significantly associated only with abnormal lung volumes at hrCT.ConclusionsIn post-COVID dyspnea without PE, lung perfusion scintigraphy may reveal a pulmonary involvement not detectable by hrCT. Post-COVID patients may show decreased perfusion rates of lower pulmonary fields in the presence of normal vascular density and markers of inflammation/coagulation.

The added value of lung perfusion scintigraphy semiquantitative measures in post-COVID patients with persistent dyspnea without pulmonary embolism / Lanfranchi, Francesco; Maggio, Sara; Delucchi, Carlo; Bertoldi, Francesca; Corica, Ferdinando; De Feo, Maria Silvia; Marini, Cecilia; Aloè, Teresita; Frantellizzi, Viviana; De Vincentis, Giuseppe; Morbelli, Silvia; Sambuceti, Gianmario; Barisione, Emanuela; Bauckneht, Matteo. - In: EXPERT REVIEW OF MEDICAL DEVICES. - ISSN 1743-4440. - (2023), pp. 1-7. [10.1080/17434440.2023.2277236]

The added value of lung perfusion scintigraphy semiquantitative measures in post-COVID patients with persistent dyspnea without pulmonary embolism

Corica, Ferdinando;De Feo, Maria Silvia;Frantellizzi, Viviana;De Vincentis, Giuseppe;
2023

Abstract

BackgroundPersistent dyspnea is frequent in post-COVID patients, even in the absence of pulmonary embolism (PE). In this scenario, the role of lung perfusion scintigraphy is unclear. The present study correlated scintigraphy-based semiquantitative perfusion parameters with chest high-resolution computed tomography (hrCT) volumetric indexes and clinical data in post-COVID patients with persistent dyspnea.Research design and methodsSixty patients (30 post-COVID and 30 not previously affected by COVID-19) with persistent dyspnea submitted to lung perfusion scintigraphy and hrCT were retrospectively recruited. Perfusion rates of the pulmonary fields and hrCT-based normalized inflated, emphysematous, infiltrated, collapsed, and vascular lung volumes were calculated. Inflammatory and coagulation biomarkers were collected. PE at imaging was an exclusion criterion.ResultsCompared to controls, reduced perfusion rates of the lower pulmonary fields and higher perfusion rates of the middle ones were observed in post-COVID patients, while hrCT findings were superimposable between the two groups. Perfusion rates of lower pulmonary fields were significantly associated only with abnormal lung volumes at hrCT.ConclusionsIn post-COVID dyspnea without PE, lung perfusion scintigraphy may reveal a pulmonary involvement not detectable by hrCT. Post-COVID patients may show decreased perfusion rates of lower pulmonary fields in the presence of normal vascular density and markers of inflammation/coagulation.
2023
COVID-19; Chest computed tomography; lung perfusion scintigraphy; post-COVID syndrome; pulmonary embolism; semiquantitative analysis
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The added value of lung perfusion scintigraphy semiquantitative measures in post-COVID patients with persistent dyspnea without pulmonary embolism / Lanfranchi, Francesco; Maggio, Sara; Delucchi, Carlo; Bertoldi, Francesca; Corica, Ferdinando; De Feo, Maria Silvia; Marini, Cecilia; Aloè, Teresita; Frantellizzi, Viviana; De Vincentis, Giuseppe; Morbelli, Silvia; Sambuceti, Gianmario; Barisione, Emanuela; Bauckneht, Matteo. - In: EXPERT REVIEW OF MEDICAL DEVICES. - ISSN 1743-4440. - (2023), pp. 1-7. [10.1080/17434440.2023.2277236]
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