Vascular Medicine Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension (CTEPH) Results From an International Prospective Registry
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Joanna Pepke-Zaba, MD; Marion Delcroix, MD; Irene Lang, MD; Eckhard Mayer, MD; Pavel Jansa, MD; David Ambroz, MD; Carmen Treacy, BSc; Andrea M. D’Armini, MD; Marco Morsolini, MD; Repke Snijder, MD; Paul Bresser, MD; Adam Torbicki, MD; Bent Kristensen, MD; Jerzy Lewczuk, MD; Iveta Simkova, MD; Joan A. Barberà, MD; Marc de Perrot, MD; Marius M. Hoeper, MD; Sean Gaine, MD; Rudolf Speich, MD; Miguel A. Gomez-Sanchez, MD; Gabor Kovacs, MD; Abdul Monem Hamid, MD; Xavier Jaı̈s, MD; Gérald Simonneau, MD
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