Surgical treatment of pulmonary hypertension in protein C deficiency.
Two patients with protein C deficiency developed symptomatic pulmonary hypertension secondary to chronic pulmonary embolism. They were successfully treated by thromboendarterectomy.
Briffa
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Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham.
Wilson
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Clarke
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D000328:Adult; D004691:Endarterectomy / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006976:Hypertension, Pulmonary / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D008168:Lung / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D020151:Protein C Deficiency; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000150:complications; D011859:Radiography; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D014692:Ventilation-Perfusion Ratio / Q000502:physiology