[Electron beam scanner and thoracic transplantation]

J Radiol. 1994 Dec;75(12):681-6.
[Article in French]

Abstract

To follow an heart transplantation, EBCT is more precise than ultrasonography and scintigraphy to calculate a stroke volume. In lung transplantation, it is important before surgery to know the value of right ventricule stroke volume in order to choice the surgical protocol. After lung transplantation SFE helps to follow the patient to look after complications, to drain a collection or to guide a biopsy. SFE contribution is discussed in rejection, infectious diseases, detection of immuno-induced carcinomas, in bronchiolitis obliterans and recurrence of the primitive disease.

MeSH terms

  • Graft Rejection
  • Heart Transplantation*
  • Humans
  • Infections / diagnostic imaging
  • Lung Diseases / diagnostic imaging
  • Lung Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Lung Transplantation*
  • Postoperative Period
  • Radiography, Thoracic
  • Time Factors
  • Tomography Scanners, X-Ray Computed*