Emanuel A Keiler, Kim M Kerr, David S Poch, Jenny Z Yang, Demosthenes G Papamatheakis, Mona Alotaibi, Angela Bautista, Victor G Pretorius, Michael M Madani, Nick H Kim, Timothy M Fernandes
Current predictors of clinical outcomes after pulmonary thromboendarterectomy (PTE) in patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) are largely limited to preoperative clinical characteristics. N-terminal-pro-brain natriuretic peptide (NT-pro-BNP), a biomarker of right ventricular dysfunction, has not yet been well described as one such predictor. From 2017 to 2021, 816 patients with CTEPH referred to the University of California, San Diego for PTE were reviewed for differences in NT-pro-BNP to predict preoperative characteristics and postoperative outcomes up to 30 days post-PTE...
April 2024: Pulmonary Circulation