Publications by authors named "H Allermand"

Objectives: To evaluate survival and functional outcome in patients treated by pulmonary endarterectomy (PEA) for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension in Denmark.

Design: Follow-up of the first 50 patients operated at Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark.

Results: Fifty patients underwent PEA in the period from 1994 to mid 2004.

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Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension has a five year survival rate of less than 10% in patients with a systolic pulmonary artery pressure of 50 mmHg with no convincing effect of medical treatment. The operative mortality from pulmonary thrombendarterectomy in specialised centres has been reduced to 9%, suggesting this treatment as being an option. The results from thrombendarterectomy of two Danish patients are reported.

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Acute pulmonary hypertension has a high mortality at the onset. Patients surviving the first phase will usually recanalize the pulmonary arteries through intrinsic thrombolytic mechanisms and medical treatment. However, in some cases there is insufficient resolution of the emboli with subsequent thrombotic and fibrotic reorganization, leading to a worsening of the pulmonary obstruction.

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Over a five-year period (1990-1994), 72 consecutive patients were referred to transoesophageal echocardiography (TEE) on suspicion of thoracic aortic dissection. TEE was performed as the only or last investigation in 42 patients (58%). In 44 patients one or more other investigations were carried out before final clinical decision making: aortography (n = 30), X-ray computer tomography (CT, n = 18), and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI, n = 12).

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