[Surgical treatment of chronic post-thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension].
Results of surgical treatment of 9 patients with postembolic chronic pulmonary hypertension, to whom thrombendarterectomy of the pulmonary artery branches was performed, using artificial blood circulation method, were studied up. Indications for conduction of operative treatment, including the heart--lungs complex transplantation, were made more precise. The ways of improvement of the surgical treatment results in patients, suffering this complication, were outlined.
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D000328:Adult; D002908:Chronic Disease; D004691:Endarterectomy; D006801:Humans; D006976:Hypertension, Pulmonary / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D008875:Middle Aged; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000601:surgery*; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery