Percutaneous transluminal pulmonary angioplasty for central-type chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension

JACC Cardiovasc Interv. 2013 Nov;6(11):1212-3. doi: 10.1016/j.jcin.2013.03.025.

Authors

Haruhisa Ishiguro¹, Masaharu Kataoka, Takumi Inami, Ryoji Yanagisawa, Nobuhiko Shimura, Hiroki Taguchi, Hideyasu Kohshoh, Hideaki Yoshino, Toru Satoh

Affiliation

¹ Division of Cardiology, Second Department of Internal Medicine, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.

PMID: 24262622
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcin.2013.03.025

No abstract available

Keywords: balloon pulmonary angioplasty; chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension; percutaneous transluminal pulmonary angioplasty.

Publication types

Case Reports
Video-Audio Media

MeSH terms

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Angioplasty, Balloon*
Chronic Disease
Familial Primary Pulmonary Hypertension
Humans
Hypertension, Pulmonary / diagnosis
Hypertension, Pulmonary / etiology
Hypertension, Pulmonary / physiopathology
Hypertension, Pulmonary / therapy*
Male
Pulmonary Embolism / complications
Pulmonary Embolism / diagnosis
Pulmonary Embolism / physiopathology
Pulmonary Embolism / therapy*
Severity of Illness Index
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Treatment Outcome