Pulmonary endarterectomy – an example of treatment of right ventricular after load failure

The treatment of choice for patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension is pulmonary endarterectomy to reduce pulmonary vascular resistance with significant symptomatic and prognostic benefit.

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