{"id":31,"date":"2015-11-11t14:09:12","date_gmt":"2015-11-11t14:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.aselpijama.com\/?page_id=31"},"modified":"2021-06-23t15:17:56","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23t14:17:56","slug":"ventilation-perfusion-scanning","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"\/\/www.aselpijama.com\/about-ph-2\/tests-you-might-have\/ventilation-perfusion-scanning\/","title":{"rendered":"ventilation-perfusion scanning"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>what is ventilation-perfusion scanning and what can it show?<\/h3>\n<p>ventilation-perfusion scanning (also called v\/q scanning) is a two-part test that measures breathing (ventilation) and blood-flow (perfusion) in all parts of the lungs.<\/p>\n<p>ventilation-perfusion scanning produces a series of scans, which can help tell the doctor about the evenness of airflow and blood-flow to the lungs.<\/p>\n<p>ventilation-perfusion scanning is most often used to detect if there are blood clots in the lungs. long-term blood clots in the lungs can be a cause of pulmonary hypertension (ph).<\/p>\n<h3>how is ventilation-perfusion scanning done?<\/h3>\n<p>in ventilation-perfusion scanning you are given a very small amount of a radioactive substance. this allows the lungs to be scanned.<\/p>\n<p>for the ventilation part of the test, you inhale a radioactive gas mixture. for the perfusion part of the test, the radioactive substance is injected into a vein. after the radioactive substance is inhaled or injected, the lungs are scanned.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"\/\/www.aselpijama.com\/app\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ph-you_web_9-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"402\" src=\"\/\/www.aselpijama.com\/app\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ph-you_web_9-1024x402.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8979\" srcset=\"\/\/www.aselpijama.com\/app\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ph-you_web_9-1024x402.jpg 1024w, \/\/www.aselpijama.com\/app\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ph-you_web_9-300x118.jpg 300w, \/\/www.aselpijama.com\/app\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ph-you_web_9-768x301.jpg 768w, \/\/www.aselpijama.com\/app\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ph-you_web_9-1536x603.jpg 1536w, \/\/www.aselpijama.com\/app\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ph-you_web_9-2048x804.jpg 2048w, \/\/www.aselpijama.com\/app\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ph-you_web_9-600x236.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>what is ventilation-perfusion scanning and what can it show? ventilation-perfusion scanning (also called v\/q scanning) is a two-part test that measures breathing (ventilation) and blood-flow (perfusion) in all parts of the lungs. ventilation-perfusion scanning produces a series of scans, which can help tell the doctor about the evenness of airflow and blood-flow to the lungs. [&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-31","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/\/www.aselpijama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31"}],"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=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"\/\/www.aselpijama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9205,"href":"\/\/www.aselpijama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions\/9205"}],"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=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}