Objective: A small percentage of acute pulmonary thromboembolisms (PTE) persist as chronic fibrin clots, potentially leading to chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH). A scoring system for evaluating the burden of acute PTE based on computed tomography pulmonary angiogram (CTPA) findings was tested for its association with CTEPH within one year.
Material And Methods: In this retrospective cohort of 475 patients with a definitive diagnosis of acute PTE, the Qanadli score (QS) was calculated on the initial CTPA.
Thorac Cardiovasc Surg
December 2022
Background: Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) is a serious condition that results from incomplete resolution of thromboemboli in pulmonary arteries. Symptomatic patients with chronic thromboembolic disease may have normal hemodynamic at rest. The aim of this study is to evaluate the outcome of pulmonary endarterectomy (PEA) in symptomatic patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary disease (CTEPD) in the absence of pulmonary hypertension as currently defined (mean pulmonary artery pressure [mPAP] < 20 mm Hg).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) is an important complication after acute pulmonary embolism (PE) with considerable morbidity and mortality. The aim of this study was to estimate the CTEPH incidence in a cohort after the first occurrence of PE.
Methods: We conducted a 1-year follow-up cohort study between 2015 and 2018 to assess the incidence of CTEPH in 474 patients with their first acute episode of PE.