Pulmonary endarterectomy under intermittent deep hypothermic circulatory arrest

Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension occurs in very few patients after acute embolism, and pulmonary thromboendarterectomy is the main and curative treatment. Here we have a patient with a chronic thrombus in the pulmonary artery that required thromboendarterectomy with deep hypothermic circulatory arrest.