title: Percutaneous interventional therapies for the treatment of patients with severe pulmonary hypertension.
abstract: Despite improvements in medical therapy, the overall prognosis of patients with severe pulmonary arterial hypertension remains poor. Heart-lung transplantation or bilateral lung transplantation is the final pathway for a minority. This paper describes both established and novel percutaneous interventional techniques that may palliate or bridge pulmonary hypertension patients to transplantation.
authors: St. Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; St. George's Hospital, London, United Kingdom.
authors: Paul
authors: P
authors: Bhamra-Ariza
authors: St. Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
authors: Anne M
authors: AM
authors: Keogh
authors: St. Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Electronic address: dmuller2@me.com.
authors: David W M
authors: DWM
authors: Muller
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D006976:Hypertension, Pulmonary / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery*; D062645:Percutaneous Coronary Intervention / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D016896:Treatment Outcome
keywords: intervention; percutaneous; pulmonary hypertension