[Prognosis of the postoperative external respiratory function based on radionuclide research data]

A unified indicator was worked out to have an opportunity before pulmonary operation to predict external respiration function in patients in the postoperative period. The value of partial oxygen pressure in the arterialized blood was proposed as such an indicator. The model made it possible to associate external respiration function with sizes of the involved area and the area of future operation. The main allowance of the model was an assumption of the contribution of any segment to the general process of blood oxygenation. Altogether 11 lung cancer patients were examined. Functional examination of the lungs with 133Xe was performed before a supposed operation. The authors showed a close quantitative and qualitative interrelationship between predicted indicators of partial oxygen pressure in the arterialized blood and corresponding values determined by the methods of blood oxygen measurement in the postoperative period.