More recently, the behavior of regional pulmonary ventilation (V(A)) and blood flow (Q) in patients with acute pulmonary embolism (APE) has been studied by applying the multiple inert gas elimination technique (MIGET). As matter of fact, experimental evidence on the redistribution of ventilation away from the vascular occluded lung had been already obtained in the early 60s of the last century. Hence, it was inferred that this disorder was characterized, unlike parenchymal disease, by ventilation/perfusion mismatch in the affected lung zones and by an obvious increase of wasted ventilation, i.e., dead space. The diagnostic strategy for pulmonary embolism, based on the mismatch of the ventilation/perfusion scan, was developed some 30 years ago on the following assumption: since the disorder involves the pulmonary vessels, it was surmised that in the embolized regions lung alveoli are unperfused or poorly perfused but well ventilated.
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