More patients should be referred to specialist centres for assessment for this potentially curative procedure. Use of guidelines to standardise investigations and monitoring of patients with CTEPH may improve patient selection for surgery.
Keyphrases
- south africa
- pulmonary hypertension
- minimally invasive
- hiv positive
- end stage renal disease
- prognostic factors
- ejection fraction
- newly diagnosed
- pulmonary artery
- palliative care
- pulmonary arterial hypertension
- coronary artery bypass
- case report
- atrial fibrillation
- clinical practice
- coronary artery bypass grafting
- coronary artery
- patient reported