Insufficiency of quality of life as the treatment endpoint for balloon pulmonary angioplasty in inoperable chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension.

Juanni GongYuan DingJianfeng WangWei WangQiang HuangRan MiaoTuguang KuangSuqiao YangJifeng LiXiaojing JiaoYuan-Hua Yang

Published in: Journal of translational internal medicine (2024)

QoL is a useful tool for assessing the exercise endurance of patients with inoperable CTEPH treated with BPA, but is insufficient to serve as a treatment endpoint for BPA.

Keyphrases

pulmonary hypertension
high intensity
pulmonary artery
skeletal muscle
pulmonary arterial hypertension
resistance training
combination therapy
atrial fibrillation
coronary artery