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Larger pulmonary artery to ascending aorta ratios are associated with decreased survival of patients undergoing pulmonary endarterectomyCentral MessagePerspective

JTCVS Open, 2022
Objectives: The ratio of pulmonary artery (PA) and ascending aorta (AA) diameters has recently been shown to be a useful indicator for disease severity and predictor of outcome in patients with pulmonary hypertension and heart failure.
Panja M. Boehm, MD, Stefan Schwarz, MD, Jürgen Thanner, MD, Cecilia Veraar, MD, Mario Gerges, MD, Christian Gerges, MD, Irene Lang, MD, Paul Apfaltrer, MD, Helmut Prosch, MD, Shahrokh Taghavi, MD, Walter Klepetko, MD, Hendrik Jan Ankersmit, MD, PhD, Bernhard Moser, MD, PhD, MBA   +12 more
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A 5‐year survivor of endarterectomy for sclerosing undifferentiated intimal sarcoma of the pulmonary artery: Importance of clinical suspicion and careful histologic evaluation

Pulmonary Circulation, 2023
We present a diagnostically challenging case of intimal sarcoma of the pulmonary artery (PA) due to the histologic finding of a sclerosing appearance with no appreciable spindle/pleomorphic cell proliferation.
Kisaki Amemiya, Morikazu Nishihira, Hatsue Ishibashi‐Ueda, Keiko Ohta‐Ogo, Takeshi Ogo, Yoshihiko Ikeda, Kinta Hatakeyama, Hiroaki Sasaki, Hitoshi Ogino   +8 more
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Giant Pulmonary Artery Thrombotic Material, Due to Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension, Mimics Pulmonary Artery Sarcoma

Medicina, 2021
In this article, we present the case of a 38-year-old female who suffered from serious respiratory distress. After an extensive pulmonary artery imaging diagnostic work-up (CTPA, MRA and PET), we were unable to differentiate between chronic ...
Helen Triantafyllidi, Dimitrios Iordanidis, Aikaterini Mpahara, Maria Mademli, Dionyssia Birmpa, Stylianos Argentos, Dimitrios Benas, Paraskevi Trivilou, Konstantinos Anagnostopoulos, Eckhard Mayer   +9 more
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Anesthesia Management for a Patient Undergoing Pulmonary Endarterctomy without Cardiopulmonary Bypass [PDF]

Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery
Pulmonary endarterectomy is a curative procedure for chronic thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension. As usual, cardiopulmonary bypass circuit is required. However, there are several complications attributed to extracorporeal circulation.
Ayten Saracoglu, Onur Ermerak, Esra Yaman Savci Sirzai, Mustafa Yuksel, Zuhal Aykac, Bedrettin Yildizeli   +5 more
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Pulmonary Endarterectomy in a Patient with Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura

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, Mehmed Yanartaş, Sibel Keskin, Işık Atagündüz, Ece Altınay   +4 more
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A case of pulmonary endarterectomy in chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension - a happily completed odyssey [PDF]

Българска кардиология
Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension is a rare condition that is usually a consequence of prior acute pulmonary embolism. It is caused by persistent obstruction of pulmonary arteries by organized thrombi resulting in redistribution of blood flow
E. Dimitrova, D. Kyuchukov, M. Peneva, B. Kunev   +3 more
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An Improved Technique for Pulmonary Endarterectomy

The Korean Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 2014
We report a modified technique for pulmonary endarterectomy (PEA) on a 67-year-old man with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) who presented with dyspnea. He was referred to our medical center for coronary artery bypass grafting. CTEPH had not been detected in his first visit to another medical center, but upon re-evaluation, the ...
Azari, Ali, Moravvej, Zahra, Afshar, Sara, Bigdelu, Leila   +3 more
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Emergent balloon pulmonary angioplasty in a patient with central‐type chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension with cardiac shock

Clinical Case Reports, 2022
The standard treatment of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) is pulmonary endarterectomy (PEA); however, it may be unsuitable in the presence of comorbidities such as cardiac shock and severe hypoxia.
Hiroto Tamura, Shinobu Hosokawa, Kenichiro Yuba   +2 more
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Pulmonary endarterectomy and the cost of patient refusal [PDF]

European Respiratory Journal, 2018
The recommended treatment for operable chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension is pulmonary endarterectomy, and patients who refused surgery in the current study had worse long-term survival than those who underwent surgery http://ow.ly ...
Nick H, Kim, Eckhard, Mayer
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Decision-making in pulmonary endarterectomy surgery [PDF]

European Respiratory Journal, 2019
Clarification of certain issues related to the UK pulmonary endarterectomy referral pathway, emphasising the importance of referral of all patients with CTEPH to a surgical teamhttp://ow.ly ...
Robin, Condliffe, Syed Rehan, Quadery, David P, Jenkins, Iain J, Armstrong, David G, Kiely   +4 more
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