Management of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) includes multimodal therapy that depends on expert centres' experience.1,2 Guidelines advocate for pulmonary endarterectomy (PEA) to ...

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In the patients with pulmonary thromboembolism the major arteriographic abnormalities were complete or incomplete obstruction of various pulmonary arterial branches (Fig. 3 B, 4 B and 5 B ...

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Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) is high blood pressure in the arteries in your lungs. You can get it after you've had a pulmonary embolism (PE) -- a blood clot in your lung ...

This transcript has been edited for clarity. Vallerie McLaughlin, MD: Hello, everyone, and welcome to this Medscape InDiscussion podcast. Today we're talking about chronic thromboembolic pulmonary ...

During the 3-month follow-up, 5 of 670 patients who were discharged without anticoagulation were diagnosed with PE (0.7%, 95% CI 0.3% to 1.7%), and 3 of them died.

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