Pulmonary artery hypertension following coronary artery bypass grafting: a case report

Post‐operative pulmonary complications in coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery are mostly reversible. We report a patient who developed pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) post‐CABG and did not have pulmonary hypertension prior to surgery. PAH Group 1 was diagnosed after right and left h...

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Autores principales: Robinson, Renana, Weinstein, Jean Marc, Cafri, Carlos, Avriel, Avital
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5933949/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29524313
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ehf2.12269
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Sumario:Post‐operative pulmonary complications in coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery are mostly reversible. We report a patient who developed pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) post‐CABG and did not have pulmonary hypertension prior to surgery. PAH Group 1 was diagnosed after right and left heart catheterization. To the best of our knowledge, this is the only reported case of a patient developing PAH post‐CABG surgery. This could be explained by immunological and/or haemostatic changes triggered by cardiopulmonary bypass. We hope that as more knowledge is gained regarding the pathophysiology of PAH, cases like these could be better understood.

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