qualitative evaluation of pulmonary ct angiography findings in pregnant and postpartum women with suspected pulmonary thromboembolism

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maryam moradi

leyla jalali monfared

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background: considering the importance of using more appropriate imaging technique for accurate diagnosis of pulmonary thromboembolism (pte) with less side eff ects, we aimed to evaluate the quality of pulmonary 64-multidetector computed tomographic (mdct) angiography in pregnant and postpartum women with suspected pte in isfahan. materials and methods:in this descriptive study, radiological findings of pregnant and postpartum women with suspected pte who underwent pulmonary 64-mdct angiography were evaluated. prevalence of pte in pregnant and postpartum women, mean of pulmonary arteries density for right and left pulmonary arteries, and their lobar and segmental branches, diagnostic quality of the pulmonary arteries density and their scoring, frequency of diagnostic and nondiagnostic images, mean of radiation dose and mean of bolus time, and the correlation between the quality of the vascular density with the peak density of the pulmonary artery were determined. results: in this study,44 pregnant and postpartum women with suspected pte were selected. the overall prevalence of pte was 9.1% (4/44). pte was diagnosed in 1 (3.7%) pregnant and 3 (17.5%) postpartum women (p = 0.14). mean density of pulmonary trunk was 278.81± 108.16 hounsfi eld unit (hu) and 308.41 ± 59.30 hu in pregnant and postpartum women, respectively. mean of bolus timing, kilovoltage peak (kvp), tube current, and dose length product (dlp) were 12.53 ± 2.36 s, 105.22± 45.71 milliamperage (ma), 382.9 ± 173.5 ma, and 317.98 ± 78.92 mgy/cm, respectively. th e rate of nondiagnostic images was 4.5%. conclusion: our findings indicated that pulmonary 64-mdct angiography is an appropriate imaging method for diagnosing pte in pregnant and postpartum women with suspected pte. it seems that, using fast ct systems (64-mdct), in accordance with high flow rate, high contrast medium concentration and low kvp could explain the obtained appropriate quality of images more effi ciently than computed tomographic pulmonary angiography (ctpa).

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