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SUBMITTER: Fawzy A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10311022 | biostudies-literature | 2023
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fawzy Aly A Mafeld Sebastian S Oreopoulos George G de Perrot Marc M McInnis Micheal C MC
Frontiers in medicine 20230615
Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) is a challenging diagnosis that can occur even in the absence of a prior thrombotic event. The main screening test is ventilation-perfusion (VQ) scintigraphy. The gold standard treatment for CTEPH is pulmonary endarterectomy (PEA), however, balloon pulmonary angioplasty (BPA) is an emerging treatment, especially for CTEPH at the segmental level. We report on a case of a patient with segmental CTEPH diagnosed by lung subtraction iodine mapping ...[more]