Patient selection for balloon pulmonary angioplasty: Six‐year results from a high volume PTE surgical center

Patient selection for balloon pulmonary angioplasty: Six‐year results from a high volume PTE surgical center

Abstract Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) is the result of incompletely resolved pulmonary emboli (PE) that lead to chronic right heart failure. The two mechanical treatment options are pulmonary thromboendarterectomy (PTE) and balloon pulmonary angioplasty (BPA). There are no f...

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Main Authors: David S. Poch, Ehtisham Mahmud, Mitul Patel, Demosthenes Papamatheakis, Timothy Fernandes, Kim Kerr, Jenny Yang, Victor Pretorius, Michael M. Madani, Nick H. Kim
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2022-10-01
Series:Pulmonary Circulation
Subjects:
chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension
CTEPH
balloon pulmonary angioplasty
BPA
pulmonary thromboendarterectomy
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/pul2.12148

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https://doi.org/10.1002/pul2.12148

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