Computed tomography identifies sex-specific differences in surgical chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Registry data suggest women are less likely than men to undergo pulmonary thromboendarterectomy for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension despite a similar proportion of proximal vs distal disease. We hypothesized that sex-specific differences could be elicited with a computed tomography pulmonary angiography analysis beyond proximal vs distal.

Methods

Preoperative computed tomography pulmonary angiography of patients who underwent pulmonary thromboendarterectomy for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension from January 2017 to September 2021 was analyzed. The pulmonary vascular tree was divided into 32 named vessels with chronic thromboembolism presence and lesion type recorded for each vessel. If no lesion was identified in a segmental vessel, subse

SUBMITTER: Bambrick M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11935516 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature