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Balloon Pulmonary Angioplasty: State of the Art

open access: yesInterventional Cardiology: Reviews, Research, Resources, 2021
Balloon pulmonary angioplasty (BPA) is a novel technique for the treatment of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension. While cardiologists need no introduction to the concept of balloon angioplasty, BPA has its own particular challenges.
John G Coghlan   +2 more
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Balloon pulmonary angioplasty in chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension [PDF]

open access: yesEuropean Respiratory Review, 2017
Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) is thought to result from incomplete resolution of pulmonary thromboemboli that undergo organisation into fibrous tissue within pulmonary arterial branches, filling pulmonary arterial lumina with ...
Irene Lang   +7 more
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Balloon Pulmonary Angioplasty for the Treatment of Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension [PDF]

open access: yesMethodist DeBakey Cardiovascular Journal
Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension is a rare form of pulmonary hypertension in patients who have evidence of chronic thromboembolic occlusion of the pulmonary vasculature.
Lauren N. Carlozzi   +2 more
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Same‐Day Discharge Following Outpatient Balloon Pulmonary Angioplasty: A Single‐Center Experience [PDF]

open access: yesPulmonary Circulation
Overnight inpatient monitoring is common following balloon pulmonary angioplasty (BPA) for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH). We describe our institutional experience in same‐day discharge (SDD) after BPA.
Amit Saha   +6 more
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Balloon pulmonary angioplasty in patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension: short- and long-term results from a cohort in Brazil [PDF]

open access: yesJornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia
Objective: A significant number of patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) are not eligible for pulmonary endarterectomy and may be treated with balloon pulmonary angioplasty (BPA).
Fabio Solano de Freitas Souza   +9 more
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Balloon pulmonary angioplasty for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary disease without pulmonary hypertension. [PDF]

open access: yesPulm Circ
AbstractBalloon pulmonary angioplasty (BPA) is beneficial for patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary disease (CTEPD) with pulmonary hypertension (PH). However, the clinical benefit of BPA for the patients with CTEPD without PH remains unknown.
Kiko T   +11 more
europepmc   +4 more sources

The Initial Experience of Balloon Pulmonary Angioplasty for Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension in Latvia [PDF]

open access: yesMedicina
Background: Treatment options for inoperable chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) or persistent pulmonary hypertension after pulmonary endarterectomy (PEA) include targeted medical therapy and balloon pulmonary angioplasty (BPA).
Anna Krigere   +9 more
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Balloon pulmonary angioplasty after pulmonary thromboendarterectomy. [PDF]

open access: yesASVIDE, 2022
.Pulmonary thromboendarterectomy (PTE) is the treatment of choice for patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) as it can remove the chronic, fibrotic, flow-limiting organized thrombi within the pulmonary arterial bed, addressing the primum movens of the disease (1).
Palazzini, Massimiliano   +6 more
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Balloon pulmonary angioplasty for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension

open access: yesJAAPA, 2022
ABSTRACT Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) remains significantly underdiagnosed in patients with a history of pulmonary embolism. These patients complain of persistent shortness of breath and present with hypoxemia despite proper anticoagulation.
Helwa, Taweel   +2 more
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