{"id":21,"date":"2015-11-11t14:06:46","date_gmt":"2015-11-11t14:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.aselpijama.com\/?page_id=21"},"modified":"2024-08-09t15:55:07","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09t14:55:07","slug":"chest-x-ray","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"\/\/www.aselpijama.com\/about-ph-2\/tests-you-might-have\/chest-x-ray\/","title":{"rendered":"chest x-ray"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">what is a chest x-ray and what can it show?<\/h3><p>an x-ray of the chest produces a black-and-white image of the lungs. it also shows an outline of the heart and the pulmonary arteries. a chest x-ray can show if your heart has become larger than normal. this often happens in people with pulmonary hypertension (ph) because the heart has to work harder. chest x-rays can also be used to detect causes of breathlessness, other than ph, such as scarring of the lungs.<\/p><p>whether or not a person has ph, additional testing is normally needed to firmly establish a diagnosis.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"\/\/www.aselpijama.com\/app\/uploads\/2021\/06\/chest-xray-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"380\" src=\"\/\/www.aselpijama.com\/app\/uploads\/2021\/06\/chest-xray-1024x380.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9213\" srcset=\"\/\/www.aselpijama.com\/app\/uploads\/2021\/06\/chest-xray-1024x380.jpg 1024w, \/\/www.aselpijama.com\/app\/uploads\/2021\/06\/chest-xray-300x111.jpg 300w, \/\/www.aselpijama.com\/app\/uploads\/2021\/06\/chest-xray-768x285.jpg 768w, \/\/www.aselpijama.com\/app\/uploads\/2021\/06\/chest-xray-1536x569.jpg 1536w, \/\/www.aselpijama.com\/app\/uploads\/2021\/06\/chest-xray-2048x759.jpg 2048w, \/\/www.aselpijama.com\/app\/uploads\/2021\/06\/chest-xray-600x222.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">how is a chest x-ray done?<\/h3><p>a chest x-ray for ph is done like any other x-ray. you will be asked to stand still in front of an x-ray machine. in some cases, two x-rays of the chest will be taken.<\/p><p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>what is a chest x-ray and what can it show? an x-ray of the chest produces a black-and-white image of the lungs. it also shows an outline of the heart and the pulmonary arteries. a chest x-ray can show if your heart has become larger than normal. this often happens in people with pulmonary hypertension [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":15,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-21","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/\/www.aselpijama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/\/www.aselpijama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"\/\/www.aselpijama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.aselpijama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.aselpijama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"\/\/www.aselpijama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90111,"href":"\/\/www.aselpijama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions\/90111"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.aselpijama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/\/www.aselpijama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}