title: [Role of computed angiopulmonography in current diagnosis of pulmonary artery thromboembolism].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To study potentialities of tomographic methods in diagnosis of pulmonary artery thromboembolism (PATE).
  
  
  METHODS
  Electron-beam tomography (EBT) was used for diagnosis in 34 patients (mean age 41.3 +/- 16.5 years) suspected of PATE (Imatron C-150 unit, USA). The procedure included standard examination of the lungs and EBT angiopulmonography in intravenous introduction of the contrast agent (80-100 ml, the rate 3-3.5 ml/s).
  
  
  RESULTS
  The pulmonary artery was found to contain thrombi in 56% patients. 18% of PATE patients had pulmonary infarction. A complete coincidence of EBT and scintigraphy was registered in 31% cases, no PATE by both methods was in 19% cases. Angiopulmonography and EBT findings were the same. In 1 case the result of pulmonary scintigraphy was false negative. 24% patients showed symptoms of thrombophlebitis or varicosity of the lower limbs. EBT has detected signs of PATE in 83% of them.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  EBT-angiopulmonography is a precise, highly informative non-invasive method in diagnosis of PATE.
authors.forename: V E
authors.initials: VE
authors.lastname: Sinitsyn
authors.forename: N V
authors.initials: NV
authors.lastname: Gagarina
authors.forename: T N
authors.initials: TN
authors.lastname: Veselova
authors.forename: S K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Ternovoĭ
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000792:Angiography / Q000379:methods*; D003287:Contrast Media; D005188:False Negative Reactions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D003287:Contrast Media