Objective To summarize the clinical characteristics and the effect of pulmonary endarterectomy(PEA)in CTEPH patients with unilateral main pulmonary artery occlusion.Methods Of 160 CTEPH patients operated between Janua...Objective To summarize the clinical characteristics and the effect of pulmonary endarterectomy(PEA)in CTEPH patients with unilateral main pulmonary artery occlusion.Methods Of 160 CTEPH patients operated between January2004 and March 2018 at our center,13(8.1%)had complete main pulmonary artery occlusion.Patients were included if the ventilation/perfusion(V/Q)scan revealed nonperfusion of an entire lung and the pathological examination showed chronic thromboembolic.展开更多
文摘Objective To summarize the clinical characteristics and the effect of pulmonary endarterectomy(PEA)in CTEPH patients with unilateral main pulmonary artery occlusion.Methods Of 160 CTEPH patients operated between January2004 and March 2018 at our center,13(8.1%)had complete main pulmonary artery occlusion.Patients were included if the ventilation/perfusion(V/Q)scan revealed nonperfusion of an entire lung and the pathological examination showed chronic thromboembolic.