Improvement in the pulmonary circulation following pulmonary thromboendarterectomy
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Pulmonary thromboendarterectomy in chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension.
hypertension (CTEPH) develops in 1-3% of cases following acute pulmonary embolism. The disease is underdiagnosed and under-treated, as statistical studies have shown. Identification of patients with CTEPH is difficult since 90% of them have no apparent disturbance of the coagulation mechanism. CTEPH is a progressive disease, the result of the incomplete lysis of large organised thrombus in the ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Heart
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0007-0769
DOI: 10.1136/heart.85.6.612