Percutaneous Interventional Therapies for the Treatment of Patients With Severe Pulmonary Hypertension

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 interven...

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Published in:Journal of the American College of Cardiology 2014-02, Vol.63 (7), p.611-618
Main Authors: Bhamra-Ariza, Paul, MBBS, MD, Keogh, Anne M., MBBS, PhD, Muller, David W.M., MBBS, MD
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biological and medical sciences
Cardiology
Cardiology. Vascular system
Cardiovascular
Catheters
Congenital diseases
Edema
Heart
Humans
Hypertension
Hypertension, Pulmonary - diagnosis
Hypertension, Pulmonary - surgery
Internal Medicine
intervention
Lung transplantation
Medical prognosis
Medical sciences
Mortality
Ostomy
Patients
percutaneous
Percutaneous Coronary Intervention - methods
Percutaneous Coronary Intervention - trends
Pneumology
Pulmonary arteries
Pulmonary hypertension
Pulmonary hypertension. Acute cor pulmonale. Pulmonary embolism. Pulmonary vascular diseases
Severity of Illness Index
Transplantation
Transplants & implants
Treatment Outcome
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Summary: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.
ISSN:0735-1097
1558-3597
DOI:10.1016/j.jacc.2013.11.022