[Comparative study of spirographic values and scintigraphic aspects in patients with bronchopulmonary diseases]

A correlation was made of routine spyrographic data with the scintigraphic aspects of the lungs in 146, respectively 100 patients with bronchopulmonary diseases. The following conclusions can be inferred: 1) normal spirographic values do not necessarily reflect an integrity of the respiratory function. Besides these values pulmonary perfusion can be severily altered; 2) the more deteriorated the spirographic values the more probable will be the alteration of the pulmonary perfusion; 3) in the evaluation of the respiratory function one cannot base on the routine spirographic data if these are within normal limits, especially before pulmonary surgery is performed, or before the patients are resuming active life; according to possibilities, the scintigraphic investigation is to be performed.