Exercise intolerance and ventilatory inefficiency improve early after balloon pulmonary angioplasty in patients with inoperable chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension

Shigefumi Fukui; Takeshi Ogo; Yoichi Goto; Jin Ueda; Akihiro Tsuji; Yoshihiro Sanda; Reon Kumasaka; Tetsuo Arakawa; Michio Nakanishi; Tetsuya Fukuda; Hiroshi Takaki; Satoshi Yasuda; Hisao Ogawa; Norifumi Nakanishi

doi:10.1016/j.ijcard.2014.11.187

Exercise intolerance and ventilatory inefficiency improve early after balloon pulmonary angioplasty in patients with inoperable chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension

Int J Cardiol. 2015 Feb 1:180:66-8. doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2014.11.187. Epub 2014 Nov 26.

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Centre, Suita, Japan; Department of Radiology, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Centre, Suita, Japan.
² Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Centre, Suita, Japan; Department of Radiology, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Centre, Suita, Japan. Electronic address: ogo.takeshi.hp@mail.ncvc.go.jp.

PMID: 25438215
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2014.11.187

No abstract available

Keywords: Balloon pulmonary angioplasty; Cardiopulmonary exercise testing; Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension; Exercise capacity; Ventilatory efficiency.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Angioplasty, Balloon / methods*
Chronic Disease
Exercise Tolerance / physiology*
Follow-Up Studies
Humans
Hypertension, Pulmonary
Prognosis
Prospective Studies
Pulmonary Embolism / diagnosis
Pulmonary Embolism / physiopathology*
Pulmonary Embolism / therapy
Respiration
Retrospective Studies
Time Factors