| Literature DB >> 28440730 |
Manuel J Richter1,2, Henning Gall2, Gesa Wittkämper2, Werner Seeger2, Eckhard Mayer3, Hossein A Ghofrani1,2, Stefan Guth3, Frank Reichenberger4.
Abstract
Pathological alterations of inspiratory capacity (IC) have been observed in pulmonary hypertension. However, the clinical significance of IC in operable chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) without other pulmonary diseases remains unknown. CTEPH patients scheduled for pulmonary endarterectomy were prospectively screened. Despite being associated with functional capacity, pathological alterations of IC were not observed.Entities:
Keywords: chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension; inspiratory capacity; pulmonary endarterectomy
Year: 2017 PMID: 28440730 PMCID: PMC5467949 DOI: 10.1177/2045893217709763
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Pulm Circ ISSN: 2045-8932 Impact factor: 3.017