1. Optical Frequency Domain Imaging of Covered Stent-Graft for Pulmonary Artery Pseudoaneurysm After Balloon Pulmonary Angioplasty
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Keiji Oi, Yasushi Mukai, Yusuke Takahara, Takashi Kubo, Kohtaro Abe, Tetsuya Matoba, Kisho Ohtani, Hiroyuki Tsutsui, Koshin Horimoto, and Kazuya Hosokawa
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Male ,endocrine system ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Hypertension, Pulmonary ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Cardiac index ,Pulmonary Artery ,030204 cardiovascular system & hematology ,Balloon ,03 medical and health sciences ,Pseudoaneurysm ,0302 clinical medicine ,Aneurysm ,Angioplasty ,medicine.artery ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Humans ,Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary ,Covered stent ,urogenital system ,business.industry ,Middle Aged ,medicine.disease ,Pulmonary hypertension ,Treatment Outcome ,030228 respiratory system ,Pulmonary artery ,Cardiology ,Stents ,Radiology ,Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine ,business ,Aneurysm, False ,Angioplasty, Balloon ,hormones, hormone substitutes, and hormone antagonists - Abstract
A 60-year-old man with inoperable chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension was referred to our hospital for balloon pulmonary angioplasty (BPA). Four series of BPA dramatically improved pulmonary hypertension: mean pulmonary arterial pressure from 42 to 29 mm Hg and cardiac index from 1.9 to
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- 2016
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