Why the study?
What are the risk factors for hospital mortality and inadequate hemodynamic improvement in patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension undergoing pulmonary thromboendarterectomy?
What are the risk factors for hospital mortality and inadequate hemodynamic improvement in patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension undergoing pulmonary thromboendarterectomy?
In patients undergoing pulmonary thromboendarterectomy for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension, advanced age, higher right atrial pressure, worse NYHA class, and more involved segments are significant risk factors for early mortality.
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May aid preoperative risk assessment in CTEPH; leaves open multivariable confirmation and external validation.
Dietmar Tscholl (2001) studied this question.