Figures
- FIGURE 1.
A pulmonary endarterectomy specimen. It is possible to perform endarterectomy down to segmental branches of pulmonary arteries. Reproduced from [14] with permission from the publisher.
Tables
- Table. 1—
Medical pre-treatment with therapies specific for pulmonary hypertension (PH) as a bridge to pulmonary endarterectomy#
Medical therapy for PH Patients PH specific monotherapy 35 (70) PH specific combination therapy 6 (12) No PH specific therapy 9 (18) Data are presented as n (%). #: data obtained following personal experience at the Giessen University Hospital (Giessen, Germany), the Kerkhoff Clinic (Bad Nauheim, Germany) and Zürich and Bern University Hospitals (both Switzerland) between January 2008 and March 2009.
- Table. 2—
Pulmonary endarterectomy team experience and early mortality after pulmonary endarterectomy between April 1994 and April 2009 in Mainz and Bad Nauheim, Germany
Study period Patients Early mortality April 1994 to July 2003 210 23 (10.9) August 2003 to April 2009 210 11 (5.2) Overall# 420 34 (8.1) Data are presented as n or n (%). #: April 1994 to April 2009.
