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However, PKQuest does incorporate a number of features that are not present in Mapleson's model, including tissue metabolism, capillary limitation (either in the lung or tissue) and ventilation-perfusion mismatch.
Pulmonary embolism was diagnosed on the basis of clinical symptoms and signs combined with a high probability ventilation-perfusion scan in 20 of the 30, a positive pulmonary angiogram in 6, a positive high resolution chest CT in 2 and an intermediate probability ventilation-perfusion scan combined with a high clinical suspicion in 2. The 8 proximal deep venous thrombosis was diagnosed by duplex ultrasonography in seven and contrast venography in 1. Thirty-one of the 38 patients were treated with intravenous heparin followed by oral warfarin, five by placement of an inferior vena caval and oral warfarin and two by placement of an inferior vena caval filter followed by intravenous heparin and oral warfarin
Despite this, a ventilation-perfusion scan performed 13 d later showed multiple pulmonary emboli (Figure 1).
The default values of σ Q and σ V of 0.4 were determined by applying the analysis of Wilson and Beck [ 50 ] to the ventilation-perfusion ratio distribution for normal young men [ 51 ] . The rates of perfusion and ventilation to each lung compartment are assumed to be uncorrelated (see [ 1 ] for details).