Pulmonary thromboendarterectomy surgery in a patient with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension
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chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension, pulmonary thromboendarterectomy, cardiac imaging.Abstract
We present the clinical case of a 31-year-old male patient with a chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension diagnosis. This case shows the fundamental role of cardiac imaging for diagnosis and the positive clinical and imaging evolution after pulmonary thromboendarterectomy surgery.
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