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Persistent exercise intolerance after pulmonary endarterectomy for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension.

Dieuwertje RuigrokLilian J MeijboomEsther J NossentAnco BoonstraNatalia J BraamsJessie van WezenbeekFrances S de ManJ Tim MarcusAnton Vonk NoordegraafPetr SymerskyHarm-Jan Bogaard
Published in: The European respiratory journal (2020)
The majority of CTEPH patients have exercise intolerance after PEA, often despite normalisation of resting haemodynamics. Not all exercise intolerance after PEA is explained by the presence of residual pulmonary hypertension, and lower preoperative T LCO was a strong predictor of exercise intolerance 6 months after PEA.
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