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Pulmonary Vascular Disease NetWork

Curriculum - Chronic Thromboembolic Disease

Treatment

Tapson VF, Humbert M.  Incidence and prevalence of chronic thrombembolic pulmonary hypertension.  From acute to chronic pulmonary embolism.  Proc Am Thor Soc 2006; 3:564-567. PubMed Abstracts

Becattini C, Agnelli G, Pesavento R, Silingardi M, Poggio R, Taliani MR, Ageno W. Incidence of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension after a first episode of pulmonary embolism.  Chest 2006; 130:172-175. PubMed Abstracts

Pengo V, Lensing AWA, Prins MH, Marchiori A, Davidson BL, Tiozzo F, Albanese P, Biasiolo A, Pegoraro C, Iliceto S, Prandoni P.  Incidence of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension after pulmonary embolism.  N Engl J Med 2004; 350:2257-2264. PubMed Abstracts

Risk Factors:

Lang I, Kerr K.  Risk factors for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension.  Proc Am Thor Soc 2006; 3:568-570. PubMed Abstracts

Morris TA, Marsh JJ, Chiles PG, Auger WA, Fedullo PF, Woods VL.  Fibrin derived from patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension is resistant to lysis.  Am J Resp Crit Care Med 2006; 173:1270-1275. PubMed Abstracts

Tanabe N, Amano S, Tatsumi K, Kominami S, Igarashi N, Shimura R, Matsubara H, Kasahara Y, Takiguchi Y, Kuriyama T.  Angiotensin-converting enzyme gene polymorphisms and prognosis in chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension.  Circ J 2006; 70:1174-1179. PubMed Abstracts

Surgical Treatment:

Kim NS.  Assessment of operability in chronic thomboembolic pulmonary hypertension.  Proc Am Thor Soc 2006; 3:584-588. PubMed Abstracts

Mayer E, Klepetko W.  Techniques and outcomes of pulmonary endartectomy for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension.  Proc Am Thor Soc 2006; 3:589-593. PubMed Abstracts

Jamieson SW, Kapelanski DP, Sakakibara N, Manecke GR, Thistlethwaite PA, Kerr KM, Channick RN, Fedullo PF, Auger WR. Pulmonary endarterectomy: experience and lessons learned in 1,500 cases. Ann Thorac Surg 2003. PubMed Abstracts

Doyle R, McCory D, Channick RN, Simonneau G, Conte J.  Surgical treatments/interventions for pulmonary arterial hypertension.  ACCP evidence-based clinical practice guidelines.  Chest 2004; 126:63S-71S. PubMed Abstracts

Kim NH, Fesler P, Channick RN, Knowlton KU, Ben-Yehuda O, Lee SH, Naeije R, Rubin LJ. Preoperative partitioning of pulmonary vascular resistance correlates with early outcome after thromboendarterectomy for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension. Circulation 2004. Heinrich M, Uder M, Tscholl D, Grgic A, Kramann B, Schafers HJ. CT scan findings in chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension: predictors of hemodynamic improvement after pulmonary thromboendarterectomy. Chest 2005. PubMed Abstracts

Hoeper MM, Mayer E, Simonneau G, Rubin LJ. Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension. Circulation 2006. PubMed Abstracts

Kim NH, Fesler P, Channick RN, Knowlton KU, Ben-Yehuda O, Lee SH, Naeije R, Rubin LJ. Preoperative partitioning of pulmonary vascular resistance correlates with early outcome after thromboendarterectomy for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension. Circulation 2004. PubMed Abstracts

Bresser P, Pepke-Zaba J, Jais X, Humbert M, Hoeper MM.  Medical therapies for chronic thromboemobolic pulmonary hypertension: an evolving treatment paradigm.  Proc Am Thor Soc 2006; 3:594-600. PubMed Abstracts

Nagaya N, Sasaki N, Ando M, Ogino H, Sakamaki F, Kyotani S, Nakanishi N. Prostacyclin therapy before pulmonary thromboendarterectomy in patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension. Chest 2003. PubMed Abstracts

Kramm T, Eberle B, Guth S, Mayer E. Inhaled iloprost to control residual pulmonary hypertension following pulmonary endarterectomy. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2005. PubMed Abstracts

Hoeper MM, Kramm T, Wilkens H, Schulze C, Schafers HJ, Welte T, Mayer E. Bosentan therapy for inoperable chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension. Chest 2005. PubMed Abstracts

Rubin LJ, Hoeper MM, Klepetko W, Galie N, Lang IM, Simonneau G. Current and future management of chronic thromboembolic pulmonaryhypertension. From diagnosis to treatment responses. Proc AM Thorac Soc. 2006 PubMed Abstracts

Prostanoids:

Bresser P, Fedullo PF, Auger WR, Channick RN, Robbins IM, Kerr KM,
Jamieson SW, Rubin LJ. 
Continuous intravenous epoprostenol for chronic
thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension.  Eur Resp J 2004; 23:595-600. PubMed Abstracts

Nagaya N, Sasaki N, Ando M, Ogino H, Sakamaki F, Kyotani S, Nakanishi N. Prostacyclin therapy before pulmonary thromboendarterectomy in patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension. Chest 2003. PubMed Abstracts

Lang I, Gomez-Sanchez M, Kneussl M, Naeije R, Escribano P, Skoro-Sajer N, Vachiery JL.  Efficacy of long-term subcutaneous trepostinil sodium therapy in pulmonary hypertension.  Chest 2006;129:1636-1643. PubMed Abstracts

Kramm T, Eberle B, Guth S, Mayer E. Inhaled iloprost to control residual pulmonary hypertension following pulmonary endarterectomy. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2005. PubMed Abstracts

Bosentan:     

Seyfarth HJ, Hammerschmidt S, Pankau H, Winkler J, Wirtz H. Long-term bosentan in chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension. Repsiration 2006; 1-6 PubMed Abstracts

Hughes RJ, Jais X, Bonderman D, Suntharalingam J, Humbert M, Lang I, Simonneau, Pepke-Zaba J.  The efficacy of bosentan in inoperable chronic thrombembolic pulmonary hypertension: a 1-year follow-up study.  Eur Resp J 2006; 28:138-143. PubMed Abstracts

Bonderman D, Nowotny R, Skoro-Sajer N, Jakowitsch J, Adlbrecht C, Klepetko W, Lang IM.  Bosentan therapy for inoperable chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension.  Chest 2005; 128:2599-2603. PubMed Abstracts

Hoeper MM, Kramm T, Wilkens H, Schulze C, Schafers HJ, Welte T, Mayer E. Bosentan therapy for inoperable chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension. Chest 2005. PubMed Abstracts

Sildanafil:

Ghofrani HA, Schermuly RT, Rose F, Wiedemann R, Kohstall MG, Kreckel A, Olschewski H, Weissman N, Enke B, Ghofrani S, Seeger W, Grimminger F.  Sildenafil for long-term treatment of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension.  Am J Resp Crit Care Med 2003;
167:12139-1141.
PubMed Abstracts

Imaging Techniques in CTEPH:

Coulden R. State-of-the-art imaging techniques in chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension. Proc Am Thor Soc 2006; 3:577-583. PubMed Abstracts

Remy-Jardin M, Duhamel A, Deken V, Bouaziz N, Dumont P, Remy J. Systemic collateral supply in patients with chronic thromboembolic and primary pulmonary hypertension: assessment with multi-detector row helical CT angiography. Radiology 2005; 235:274-281. PubMed Abstracts

Nikolaou K, Schoenberg SO, Scheidler J, Dieterich O, Kuehn B, Rosa F, Huber A, Leuchte H, Baumgartner R, Behr J, Reiser MF.  Pulmonary arterial hypertension: diagnosis with fast perfusion MR imaging and high-spatial-resolution MR angiography - preliminary experience. Radiology 2005; 236:694-703. PubMed Abstracts

Ley S, Fink C, Zaporozhan J, Borst MM, Meyer FJ, Puderbach M,Eichinger M, Plathow C, Grunig E, Kreitner KF,Kauczor HU.  Value of high spatial and high temporal resolution magnetic resonance angiography for differentiation between idiopathic and thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension: initial results.  Eur Radiol 2005; 15:2256-2263. PubMed Abstracts

Kreitner KF, Kunz RP, Ley S, Oberholzer K, Neeb D, Gast KK, Heussel CP, Eberle B, Mayer E, Kauczor HU, Duber C.  Chronicthromboembolic pulmonary hypertension - assessment by magnetic resonance imaging.  Eur Radiol  2006; PubMed Abstracts