title: Historical perspective: surgery for chronic thromboembolic disease.
abstract: This article provides a historical perspective for our current understanding of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension and surgery for this disease. It chronicles the developments in surgical techniques that have made pulmonary endarterectomy the procedure of choice for obstruction of pulmonary vessels by organized thromboemboli and secondary vessel wall thickening.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of California, San Diego 92103-8892, USA. sjamieson@ucsd.edu
authors.forename: Stuart W
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Jamieson
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease; D004691:Endarterectomy / Q000266:history*; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D006976:Hypertension, Pulmonary / Q000266:history / Q000601:surgery*; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000266:history / Q000601:surgery*