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A New Era of Therapeutic Strategies for Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension by Two Different Interventional Therapies; Pulmonary Endarterectomy and Percutaneous Transluminal Pulmonary Angioplasty

BACKGROUND: Pulmonary endarterectomy (PEA) is established for the treatment of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH). Recently, percutaneous transluminal pulmonary angioplasty (PTPA) has been added for peripheral-type CTEPH, whose lesions exist in segmental, subsegmental, and more di...

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Autores principales: Inami, Takumi, Kataoka, Masaharu, Ando, Motomi, Fukuda, Keiichi, Yoshino, Hideaki, Satoh, Toru
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3984177/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24728482
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0094587