[Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis with reverse ventilation/perfusion mismatch; a case report]

N Watanabe; T Inoue; N Oriuchi; M Tateno; T Hirano; K Tomiyoshi; K Endo; Y Sasaki; M Inagaki; H Michimata

[Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis with reverse ventilation/perfusion mismatch; a case report]

Kaku Igaku. 1991 Nov;28(11):1349-52.

[Article in Japanese]

Authors

N Watanabe¹, T Inoue, N Oriuchi, M Tateno, T Hirano, K Tomiyoshi, K Endo, Y Sasaki, M Inagaki, H Michimata, et al.

Affiliation

¹ Department of Nuclear Medicine, Gunma University School of Medicine.

PMID: 1770650

Abstract

Generally, non-ventilated segments are not perfused on lung scans (V/Q match). Now we report a very rare case with pulmonary alveolar proteinosis whose scintigraphy shows the decreased ventilation, but well perfused (reverse V/Q mismatch).

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Humans
Lung / diagnostic imaging*
Male
Middle Aged
Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis / diagnostic imaging*
Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis / physiopathology
Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon
Ventilation-Perfusion Ratio