A new era of therapeutic strategies for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension by two different interventional therapies; Pulmonary endarterectomy and percutaneous transluminal pulmonary angioplasty
2014
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 distal pulmonary arteries. A shift in clinical practice of interventional therapies occurred in 2009 (first mainly PEA, later PTPA). We examined the latest clinical outcomes of patients with CTEPH.
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