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Pulmonary thromboendarterectomy in Portugal: Initial experience

Revista Portuguesa de Cardiologia, 2020
Introduction: Surgical treatment for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) is challenging. Most Portuguese patients with CTEPH have been referred to foreign institutions for treatment, with significant social and economic costs.
José Fragata, Helena Telles
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Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension developed in a female patient with lupus erythematosus and secondary antiphospholipid syndrome [PDF]

Терапевтический архив, 2017
Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) is one of the potentially curable forms of pulmonary hypertension, in which pulmonary thromboendarterectomy is the gold standard treatment.
G A Movsisyan, T V Martynyuk, K V Mershin, N M Danilov, M A Satybaldyeva, T M Reshetnyak, R S Akchurin, E L Nasonov, I Ye Chazova   +8 more
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Percutaneous Interventional Therapy for Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension

Structural Heart, 2023
Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension is a form of precapillary pulmonary hypertension resulting from the incomplete resolution of pulmonary thromboemboli and formation of chronic, fibrotic, flow-limiting obstructions within the pulmonary ...
Ehtisham Mahmud, MD, Lawrence Ang, MD
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Pulmonary Embolism—A Century of Progress

ANZ Journal of Surgery, EarlyView.
Reviews a century of progress in the diagnosis, prevention, and management of pulmonary embolism; from the first successful surgical embolectomy in 1924 to advanced imaging, pharmacological thromboprophylaxis, and treatment. In the 21st century, advances include catheter‐directed thrombolysis or mechanical thrombectomy under decision‐making guidance of
D. A. Watters
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A survey on pulmonary thromboendarterectomy in the Asia-Pacific region

, 2017
Background Surgical pulmonary thromboendarterectomy has been established as the treatment of choice for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension.
Mohammad Bashar Izzat, Farouk Almohammad, Ahmad F Raslan   +2 more
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Baseline body mass index does not significantly affect outcomes after pulmonary thromboendarterectomy. [PDF]

, 2014
BackgroundObesity is a common comorbidity of patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension referred for pulmonary thromboendarterectomy, yet the effect of obesity on pulmonary thromboendarterectomy outcomes has not been well described ...
Fernandes, Timothy M, Kim, Nick H, Auger, William R, Jamieson, Stuart W, Kerr, Kim M, Poch, David S, Fedullo, Peter F, Madani, Michael M, Pretorius, Victor G   +8 more
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Balloon Pulmonary Angioplasty for the Treatment of Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension

Methodist 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, C. Huie Lin, Zachary L. Steinberg   +2 more
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Lung Injury After Balloon Pulmonary Angioplasty for CTEPH: Histopathologic Findings and Management Implications

Pulmonary Circulation, Volume 16, Issue 3, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Balloon pulmonary angioplasty (BPA) has emerged as a guideline‐recommended therapy for surgically inoperable chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH). Lung injury occurs in approximately 6% of BPA sessions and is the leading cause of procedure‐related mortality. While lung injury post‐BPA has recently been associated with vascular
Zachary L. Steinberg, Tara Krishnan, Lia M. Barros, Jonathan Buber, Kelly D. Smith, Michael S. Mulligan, Peter J. Leary, Samuel G. Rayner   +7 more
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Pulmonary Thromboendarterectomy for Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension

, 2018
Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) occurs in less than 3.8% of pulmonary embolism (PE) cases. It results from concomitant pulmonary vascular obstruction and small-vessel fibrointimal hyperplasia, which leads to elevated pulmonary ...
Konstadinos Plestis (4059451), Oleg Orlov (4059448), Jordanis Zakopoulos (5810940), Vishal Shah (5651), Peter Villas (5810942), Manabu Takebe (5419781), Matthew Thomas (3043569), Cinthia Orlov (4751970)   +7 more
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Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension in a Child With Sickle Cell Disease

Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2020
Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension is a potentially curable form of pre-capillary pulmonary hypertension (PH) resulting from incomplete resolution of pulmonary thromboemboli.
Robert Spencer, Gerson Valencia Villeda, Koji Takeda, Erika B. Rosenzweig   +3 more
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