Emergent balloon pulmonary angioplasty in a patient with central‐type chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension with cardiac shock

Abstract

Abstract The standard treatment of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) is pulmonary endarterectomy (PEA); however, it may be unsuitable in the presence of comorbidities such as cardiac shock and severe hypoxia. We describe a successful case of emergent balloon pulmonary angioplasty performed before PEA in a patient with deteriorating central‐type CTEPH.

Keywords

• chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension
• emergent balloon pulmonary angioplasty
• pulmonary endarterectomy
• pulmonary hypertension