Rescue balloon pulmonary angioplasty in a rapidly deteriorating chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension patient with liver failure and refractory infection

Abstract. Pulmonary endarterectomy (PEA) is the standard therapy for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH). Balloon pulmonary angioplasty (BPA) is an alternative therapy for such patients. Here we report the case of a 60-year-old woman who presented with severe CTEPH resulting in low...

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Huvudupphovsmän: Tsuji, Akihiro, Ogo, Takeshi, Demachi, Jun, Ono, Yusuke, Sanda, Yoshihiro, Morita, Yoshihiro, Fukuda, Tetsuya, Nakanishi, Norifumi
Materialtyp: Artigo
Språk:Inglês
Publicerad: University of Chicago Press 2014
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Case Report
Länkar:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4070762/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25006430
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1086/675643
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