Pulmonary angioplasty: A step further in the continuously changing landscape of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension management.
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Serval ID
serval:BIB_00D609339B1E
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
Publication sub-type
Review (review): journal as complete as possible of one specific subject, written based on exhaustive analyses from published work.
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Publications
Institution
Title
Pulmonary angioplasty: A step further in the continuously changing landscape of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension management.
Journal
European journal of radiology
ISSN
1872-7727 (Electronic)
ISSN-L
0720-048X
Publication state
Published
Issued date
03/2021
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
136
Pages
109562
Language
english
Notes
Publication types: Journal Article ; Review
Publication Status: ppublish
Publication Status: ppublish
Abstract
Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) is a potentially fatal and frequently undiagnosed form of pulmonary hypertension (PH), classified within group 4 by the World Health Organization (WHO). It is a type of precapillary PH, which uncommonly develops as a peculiar sequel of acute pulmonary embolism due to the partial resolution of the mechanically obstructing thrombus with a coexisting inflammatory response from pulmonary vessels. CTEPH is one of the potentially treatable forms of PH whose current standard of care is surgical pulmonary endarterectomy. Medical therapy with few drugs in non-operable disease is approved and has shown improvement in patients' hemodynamic condition and functional ability. Recently, balloon pulmonary angioplasty (BPA) has shown promising results as a treatment option for technically inoperable patients, those with unacceptable risk-to-benefit ratio and in a case of residual PH after endarterectomy. Lack of meticulous CTEPH screening programs in post-pulmonary embolism patients leading to underdiagnosis of this condition, complex operability assessment, and diversity in BPA techniques among different institutions are still the issues that need to be addressed. In this paper, we review the recent achievements in the management of non-operable CTEPH, their outcome and safety, based on available data.
Keywords
Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension, Endovascular procedure, Pulmonary angioplasty, Pulmonary embolism
Pubmed
Web of science
Open Access
Yes
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