Lung Ventilation-Perfusion Scan in COVID-19: Various Patterns of Perfusion Defects.

Abstract

Although COVID-19 infection is associated with the increased risk of pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE), COVID-19 pulmonary lesions cause ventilation-perfusion (V/Q) patterns other than PTE. Although extensive research has been done to address different anatomical patterns of COVID-19, there is a knowledge gap in terms of V/Q lung scintigraphy in these patients. The purpose of this study is to demonstrate these patterns and to show how important it is to use SPECT/CT in addition to planar images to differentiate between these patterns from PTE. In the current collection, we presented various patterns of V/Q SPECT/CT abnormalities in COVID-19 patients.