title: Right ventricular pathology in chronic pulmonary hypertension.
abstract: Right ventricular free wall biopsy specimens in 40 patients undergoing surgery for relief of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension were normal in 5%, disclosed only myocyte hypertrophy in 80%, mild focal fibrosis in 12.5%, and myocarditis in 2.5%. There was no relation between postsurgical functional or hemodynamic outcomes and the presence of focal fibrosis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego Medical Center, USA.
authors.forename: S P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Bradley
authors.forename: W R
authors.initials: WR
authors.lastname: Auger
authors.forename: K M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Moser
authors.forename: P F
authors.initials: PF
authors.lastname: Fedullo
authors.forename: R N
authors.initials: RN
authors.lastname: Channick
authors.forename: C M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Bloor
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001706:Biopsy; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005260:Female; D006439:Hemodynamics; D006801:Humans; D006976:Hypertension, Pulmonary / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009206:Myocardium / Q000473:pathology*; D018497:Ventricular Dysfunction, Right / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology