Results From the United States Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension Registry: Enrollment Characteristics and 1-Year Follow-up.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The United States Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension Registry (US-CTEPH-R) was designed to characterize the demographic characteristics, evaluation, clinical course, and outcomes of surgical and nonsurgical therapies for patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension.

Research question

What are the differences in baseline characteristics and 1-year outcomes between operated and nonoperated subjects?

Study design and methods

This study describes a multicenter, prospective, longitudinal, observational registry of patients newly diagnosed (< 6 months) with CTEPH. Inclusion criteria required a mean pulmonary artery pressure ≥ 25 mm Hg documented by right heart catheterization and radiologic confirmation of CTEPH. Between 2015 and 2018, a

SUBMITTER: Kerr KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8628169 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature