title: [Thromboendarterectomy as a treatment for chronic pulmonary hypertension].
abstract: Chronic pulmonary hypertension is an extremely difficult disease to diagnose and is usually identified by the exclusion of other more recognized causes of enlargement in mean pulmonary arterial resistance. Up to now, treatments proposed for this disease, have not been very successful. Medical procedures are not a long term proper solution which leads the process to an irreversible point whose only solution should be a pulmonary transplantation. In recent years, study groups have established a surgical method, alternative to transplantation, which has been able to increase, with a decrease in mortality rates, a longer and a better quality of life for the patients affected by this disease: we are talking about pulmonary thromboendarterectomy.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Cirugía Cardíaca, Hospital 12 de Octubre, Madrid.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Carrascal
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Rodríguez
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Maroto
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Rufilanchas
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cortina
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Molina
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Pérez de la Sota
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: López Gude
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease; D004691:Endarterectomy / Q000379:methods / Q000401:mortality; D006801:Humans; D006976:Hypertension, Pulmonary / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality; D012008:Recurrence; D012307:Risk Factors