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ArticleBMJ case reports2024

10-year success story in CTEPH treatment: breaking the myth of rareness.

Sofia Moura de Azevedo, Inês Furtado, Luísa Carvalho, Abílio Reis

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Article in BMJ case reports, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sofia Moura de AzevedoInternal Medicine Department, Centro Hospitalar Universitario de Santo Antonio, Porto, Portugal sofiamazevedo@chporto.min-saude.pt.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9832-6348
Inês FurtadoInternal Medicine Department; Pulmonary Vascular Disease Unit, Centro Hospitalar Universitario de Santo Antonio, Porto, Portugal.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3985-0718
Luísa CarvalhoInternal Medicine Department; Pulmonary Vascular Disease Unit, Centro Hospitalar Universitario de Santo Antonio, Porto, Portugal.
Abílio ReisPulmonary Vascular Disease Unit, Centro Hospitalar Universitario de Santo Antonio, Porto, Portugal.
Hospital de Santo António · PT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Unlike acute pulmonary embolism (PE), the resolution of thrombi is ineffective in chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH), leading to reorganisation and fibrotic changes within the pulmonary arteries. The authors report the case of a man in his 60s with polycythemia vera, under warfarin, following an acute PE. He was admitted a year later with right heart failure and haemodynamic instability. Acute over chronic PE caused this severe presentation, confirmed by right heart catheterisation and pulmonary scintigraphy. The challenging diagnosis and management involved transfer to a centre specialised in pulmonary vascular disease. Normalisation of functional and haemodynamic parameters, sustained in 10-year follow-up, was achieved with anticoagulation and triple therapy with prostanoids as a bridge to pulmonary thromboendarterectomy. Targeted medical therapy, not standard at that time, was crucial to recovering conditions for transfer. An individualised approach, integrating multidisciplinary pulmonary hypertension expertise, provides the basis for the best care for CTEPH.

Indexed as

Hypertension, PulmonaryPulmonary EmbolismAgedChronic DiseaseHumansMaleMiddle AgedPulmonary ArteryPulmonary CirculationRisk FactorsHeart failurePulmonary embolismPulmonary hypertensionThrombosisVenous thromboembolism

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PMID38320818
PMCPMC10860018
OpenAlexW4391562195

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