Evaluation of the CT imaging findings in the diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension due to chronic thromboembolism.
Cigdem Ozer GökaslanErsel OnratSerkan GokaslanPublished in: The clinical respiratory journal (2019)
The results of the this study confirm the important role of MDCTA in the evaluation of vascular, cardiac and parenchymal findings in the patients with CTEPH and identifying patients that would most benefit from surgical treatment by visualization of the segmental and subsegmental branches of the pulmonary arteries.
Keyphrases
- pulmonary hypertension
- end stage renal disease
- ejection fraction
- newly diagnosed
- chronic kidney disease
- high resolution
- computed tomography
- peritoneal dialysis
- pulmonary artery
- prognostic factors
- left ventricular
- pulmonary arterial hypertension
- image quality
- magnetic resonance imaging
- heart failure
- magnetic resonance
- contrast enhanced
- photodynamic therapy
- coronary artery