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Pulmonary Circulation, 2020 Residual pulmonary hypertension is an important sequela after pulmonary endarterectomy for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension. Recurrent thrombosis or embolism could be a contributor to this residual pulmonary hypertension but the potential ...
Dieuwertje Ruigrok +10 more
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Pulmonary Circulation, 2021 Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension is considered as a rare but severe complication after acute pulmonary embolism and is potentially curable by pulmonary endarterectomy.
Lukas Hobohm +4 more
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Pulmonary Endarterectomy in a Patient with Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura [PDF]
Case Reports in Vascular Medicine, 2015 Immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) patients are at high risk for bleeding complications regarding surgeries involving cardiopulmonary bypass. We report an ITP patient with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension who underwent uncomplicated ...
Bedrettin Yıldızeli +4 more
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Anatolian Journal of Cardiology, 2022 Background: Antiphospholipid syndrome is an autoimmune disease characterized by the occurrence of venous and/or arterial thrombosis. Chronic thromboembolism is one of the known established pathogenesis of pulmonary hypertension, known as chronic ...
Serpil Taş +12 more
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Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension following long-term peripherally inserted central venous catheter use [PDF]
Pulmonary Circulation, 2019 A 36-year-old woman presented with recurrent pulmonary emboli (PE) despite oral anticoagulation. She was a type I diabetic with severe gastroparesis requiring insertion of multiple long-term peripherally inserted central catheters (PICC) over a 10-year ...
Abigail Masding +10 more
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Indian Heart Journal, 2014 We present a case of Tricuspid valve Aspergillus endocarditis with saddle shaped massive pulmonary embolism occurring in an immunocompetent host. The patient was managed uniquely by pulmonary endarterectomy (PEA) and combination antifungal chemotherapy ...
Harpreet Singh Minhas +3 more
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Successful Pulmonary Endarterectomy in a Patient with Klinefelter Syndrome [PDF]
Case Reports in Pulmonology, 2012 Klinefelter syndrome (KS) is a frequent genetic disorder due to one or more supernumerary X chromosomes. KS is associated with an increased risk for venous thromboembolic events like deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism.
E. Wierda +5 more
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Postoperative management of pulmonary endarterectomy and outcome
Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia, 2010 Pulmonary artery thromboendarterectomy (PTE) has been regarded as a promising, potentially curative surgical procedure. However, PTE is associated with specific postoperative complications, such as reperfusion pulmonary edema and right heart failure leading to a considerable mortality of 7-24%.
Narayana Iyengar Ramakrishna +4 more
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Pulmonary endarterectomy in the management of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension [PDF]
European Respiratory Review, 2017 Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) is a type of pulmonary hypertension, resulting from fibrotic transformation of pulmonary artery clots causing chronic obstruction in macroscopic pulmonary arteries and associated vascular remodelling in the microvasculature.Pulmonary endarterectomy (PEA) offers the best chance of symptomatic and ...
Jenkins, D +4 more
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Pulmonary Endarterectomy for CTEPH
Indian Heart Journal, 2014 Sumir Dubey +6 more
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