Is there a role for lung perfusion [99mTc]-MAA SPECT/CT to rule out pulmonary embolism in COVID-19 patients with contraindications for iodine contrast?

Is there a role for lung perfusion [^99mTc]-MAA SPECT/CT to rule out pulmonary embolism in COVID-19 patients with contraindications for iodine contrast?

Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2020 Aug;47(9):2062-2063. doi: 10.1007/s00259-020-04837-4.

Irene A Burger^{1

2}, Tilo Niemann³, Dimitri Patriki⁴, François Fontana⁵, Jürg-Hans Beer^{4

6}

¹ Department of Nuclear Medicine, Cantonal Hospital of Baden, Im Ergel, 5404, Baden, Switzerland. irene.burger@ksb.ch.
² Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hosptial of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland. irene.burger@ksb.ch.
³ Department of Radiology, Cantonal Hospital of Baden, Baden, Switzerland.
⁴ Department of Internal Medicine, Cantonal Hospital of Baden, Baden, Switzerland.
⁵ Department of Emergency Care, Intensive Care Unit, Cantonal Hospital of Baden, Baden, Switzerland.
⁶ Center for Molecular CardiologyCenter for Molecular Cardiology, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.

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