Azar Kianzad, Andrea Baccelli, Natalia J Braams, Stine Andersen, Jessie van Wezenbeek, Jeroen N Wessels, Lucas R Celant, Anna E Vos, Rachel Davies, Francesco Lo Giudice, Gulammehdi Haji, Rocco F Rinaldo, Beatrice Vigo, Deepa Gopalan, Petr Symersky, Jacobus A Winkelman, Anco Boonstra, Esther J Nossent, J Tim Marcus, Anton Vonk Noordegraaf, Lilian J Meijboom, Frances S de Man, Asger Andersen, Luke S Howard, Harm Jan Bogaard
BACKGROUND: Long-term changes in exercise capacity and cardiopulmonary hemodynamics, after pulmonary endarterectomy (PEA) for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) have been poorly described. METHODS: We analysed the data from two prospective surgical CTEPH cohorts in Hammersmith Hospital, London and Amsterdam UMC. A structured multi-modal follow-up was adopted, consisting of right heart catheterisation, cardiac MRI and cardiopulmonary exercise testing before and after PEA...
November 22, 2023: Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation