# Nuclide record pulmonary-embolism-vq (indication). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from Nuclide (nuclide.cc)". Whole corpus: https://nuclide.cc/api/v1/nuclide.nt
@prefix schema: <https://schema.org/> .
@prefix nuclide: <https://nuclide.cc/ns#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://nuclide.cc/indications/pulmonary-embolism-vq/>
  a schema:MedicalCondition ;
  nuclide:kind "indication" ;
  schema:identifier "pulmonary-embolism-vq" ;
  schema:name "Pulmonary embolism: ventilation/perfusion imaging"@en ;
  schema:description "To check whether a blood clot has lodged in the lung's blood vessels, a scan compares which parts of the lung get air (ventilation) with which parts get blood flow (perfusion); a clot shows up as an area that is ventilated but not perfused."@en ;
  schema:url <https://nuclide.cc/indications/pulmonary-embolism-vq/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-22"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31410539/>, <https://snmmi.org/Web/Web/Clinical-Practice/Appropriate-Use-Criteria/Articles/Appropriate-Use-Criteria-for-Ventilation-Perfusion--V-Q--Imaging-in-Pulmonary-Embolism.aspx>, <https://www.cdc.gov/blood-clots/data-research/facts-stats/index.html> ;
  nuclide:tag "pulmonary", "SPECT", "emergency", "cardiopulmonary" ;
  nuclide:related <https://nuclide.cc/drugs/technegas/>, <https://nuclide.cc/drugs/tc-99m-maa/>, <https://nuclide.cc/isotopes/kr-81m/>, <https://nuclide.cc/companies/cyclopharm/>, <https://nuclide.cc/isotopes/tc-99m/> ;
  nuclide:technologies <https://nuclide.cc/technologies/spect/>, <https://nuclide.cc/technologies/spect-ct/> ;
  nuclide:drugs <https://nuclide.cc/drugs/technegas/>, <https://nuclide.cc/drugs/tc-99m-maa/> ;
  nuclide:standardOfCare <https://nuclide.cc/drugs/technegas/>, <https://nuclide.cc/drugs/tc-99m-maa/>, <https://nuclide.cc/isotopes/kr-81m/> .