Impact of cancer on the prevalence, management, and outcome of patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension.

Junichi NakamuraIchizo TsujinoHideki ShimaToshitaka NakayaAyako SugimotoTakahiro SatoTaku WatanabeHiroshi OhiraMasaru SuzukiIsao YokotaSatoshi Konno

Published in: Journal of thrombosis and thrombolysis (2023)

17% of our patients with CETPH were diagnosed with cancer, with breast and gastrointestinal tract cancers being the most common. Cancer comorbidity was associated with a poor prognosis and contributed to death in 46% of deceased patients. The impact of cancer on CTEPH should be further evaluated in the future.

Keyphrases

papillary thyroid
poor prognosis
squamous cell
pulmonary hypertension
long non coding rna
lymph node metastasis
childhood cancer
pulmonary artery
prognostic factors