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Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension
P F Fedullo1, W R Auger, R N Channick
1Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of California at San Diego, UCSD Medical Center, USA.
Clinics in Chest Medicine
|June 1, 1995
Abstract:
Chronic, major-vessel thromboembolic disease represents a potentially correctable form of pulmonary hypertension. A thorough understanding of the unique problems associated with each aspect of care in these patients is essential to ensure a minimal perioperative mortality and satisfactory long-term outcome. This article reviews the cause, natural history, evaluation, surgical management, and postoperative course of patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension undergoing thromboendarterectomy.