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What is the function of a vent perfusion scan?
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Dx Pulmonary Embolus: A ventillation perfusion lung scan is a nuclear test used to diagnose a blood clot to the lung or pulmonary embolus. Medication is injected into your vein and you also breath a medication into the lung to look for a mismatch on a nuclear imaging camera which would suggest a pulmonary embolus.
Answered 7/24/2013
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Pulmonary embolism: To evaluate for possible pulmonary embolism or to evaluate resolution of previously known pulmonary embolism.
Answered 9/29/2012
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