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Percutaneous balloon valvuloplasty in a pregnant patient with pulmonary bioprosthetic valve stenosis

Revista Médica del Hospital General de México, 2022
The pulmonary valve’s anomalies can lead to the obstruction of the right ventricle’s outflow tract. This leads to the right ventricle’s pressure overload, dilation, hypertrophy and eventually his malfunction.
Jesús S. Borges-López, Axel Cuevas-Campillo, Víctor Ochoa-Pérez, Javier González-Maciel, José R. Castaño-Guerra, Eduardo Ayala-Hernández   +5 more
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Successful depiction of systemic collateral supply to pulmonary artery in CTEPH using time-resolved 4D CT angiography: a case report

Pulmonary Circulation, 2020
A 49-year-old man with CTEPH (pre-procedural mean pulmonary artery pressure: 36 mmHg) underwent balloon pulmonary angioplasty. Chronic total occlusion of the left inferior pulmonary artery trunk was observed.
Masashi Tamura, Takashi Kawakami, Yoshitake Yamada, Masaharu Kataoka, Seishi Nakatsuka, Keiichi Fukuda, Masahiro Jinzaki   +6 more
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Rescue balloon pulmonary angioplasty for life-threatening acute pulmonary embolism on chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension patients

Respiratory Medicine Case Reports, 2021
We report the cases of two patients with life-threatening acute pulmonary embolism (PE) on chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) who were treated with rescue balloon pulmonary angioplasty (BPA).
Keiko Sumimoto, Yu Taniguchi, Hiroyuki Fujii, Keisuke Miwa, Yoichiro Matsuoka, Yasunori Tsuboi, Noriaki Emoto, Ken-ichi Hirata   +7 more
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ASCORE: an up-to-date cardiovascular risk score for hypertensive patients reflecting contemporary clinical practice developed using the (ASCOT-BPLA) trial data. [PDF]

, 2013
A number of risk scores already exist to predict cardiovascular (CV) events. However, scores developed with data collected some time ago might not accurately predict the CV risk of contemporary hypertensive patients that benefit from more modern ...
A K Gupta, AS Levey, B Dahlöf, B Dahlöf, C-L Chang, D Prieto-Merino, D Wood, DW Hosmer, E Falaschetti, EM Antman, G Mancia, H Wedel, J Dobson, J Hippisley-Cox, KM Anderson, MJ Pencina, N Poulter, P Primatesta, P S Sever, PS Sever, PS Sever, R D'Agostino, RB D’Agostino, RM Conroy, S Pocock, SJ Pocock, TC Clayton, TG Clark   +27 more
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Balloon Dilatation in the Management of Congenital Obstructive Lesions of the Heart: Review of Author’s Experiences and Observations—Part II

Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease, 2023
While investigating the outcomes of balloon dilatation procedures in patients with congenital obstructive lesions of the heart, several parallel observations were made.
P. Syamasundar Rao
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Balloon pulmonary angioplasty for patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension previously operated by pulmonary endarterectomy

Pulmonary Circulation, 2022
Balloon pulmonary angioplasty improved hemodynamics, walking distance, and World Health Organization functional class in patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension not eligible for pulmonary endarterectomy (Non‐PEA) and patients with ...
Asger Andersen, Jacob Valentin Hansen, Simone Juel Dragsbaek, Michael Maeng, Mads Jønsson Andersen, Gratien Andersen, Søren Mellemjkaer, Lars Bo Ilkjær, Jens Erik Nielsen‐Kudsk   +8 more
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Local DRLs and automated risk estimation in paediatric interventional cardiology [PDF]

, 2019
Introduction : Cardiac catheterization procedures result in high radiation doses and often multiple procedures are necessary for congenital heart disease patients. However, diagnostic reference levels (DRL) remain scarce.
Bacher, Klaus, Buytaert, Dimitri, De Wolf, Daniël, PANZER, JOSEPH, Rubbens, Lukas, Vandekerckhove, Kristof   +5 more
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Successful pulmonary artery balloon angioplasty in a rare case of arterial tortuosity syndrome

Research in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2020
Arterial tortuosity syndrome (ATS) is a very rare autosomal recessive disease which results from mutations of the SLC2A10 gene. In this article, we describe the results of vascular imaging of an adult patient with ATS who was presented with pulmonary ...
Maryam Aliramezany, Ata Firouzi, Mojgan Parsaee, Zahra Khajali   +3 more
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Hybrid approach for treating patient with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension and extrinsic compression of left main coronary artery

Russian Open Medical Journal, 2019
Background ― Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) is a rare life-threatening form of pulmonary artery hypertension. CTEPH is potentially curable by performing surgical operation – pulmonary thrombendarteriectomy. Unfortunately, about 36%
Nikolay M. Danilov, Madina B. Karabasheva, Olesya V. Sagaydak, Yuriy G. Matchin, Kirill V. Mershin, Irina E. Chazova   +5 more
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The effectiveness of scoring balloon angioplasty in the treatment of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension.

PLoS ONE, 2022
BackgroundBalloon pulmonary angioplasty (BPA) is an effective treatment for inoperable chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH). The purpose of this study is to evaluate the therapeutic effect and safety of the non-slip element percutaneous ...
Masao Takigami, Hideo Tsubata, Naohiko Nakanishi, Yuki Matsubara, Noriyuki Wakana, Kenji Yanishi, Kan Zen, Takeshi Nakamura, Satoaki Matoba   +8 more
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