Importance of?thrombendarterectomy (TEA) had declined with the advent of bypass techniques and availability of prosthetic grafts, in patients with Peripheral arterial occlusive disease (PAOD). Recently, there had been...
Objective: To study the outcome of normothermic beating heart pulmonary thromboendarterectomy (PTE) performed in patients with chronic pulmonary thromboembolism. Methodology: A retrospective analysis of 15 patients wh...
Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension is one of the few forms of pulmonary hypertension that can be cured surgically, being the pulmonary trhomboendarterectomy (PTE) the therapeutic approach of choice, with su...
Objective: The gold standard procedure for pulmonary thromboendarterectomy is median sternotomy, cardiopulmonary bypass, profound hypothermia (18oC) and circulatory arrest. We propose a modified technique to improve t...
Objective To evaluate the improving reliability and safety of thromboendarterectomy and perioperative management for chronic pulmonary thromboembolism. Methods The clinical data of 12 cases with chronic pulmonary thro...