Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension

PHILADELPHIA — With the 2025 GOLD report newly featuring a section dedicated to pulmonary hypertension, it is important that clinicians expand their knowledge of this comorbidity, according to a presentation.

HONOLULU — Patients with chronic thromboembolism pulmonary hypertension and a higher median income had better 6-minute walk distance and hemodynamics than those with a low income, according to a presentation at the CHEST Annual Meeting.

Early detection of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension may be achieved with use of predefined signs on a CT scan following acute pulmonary embolism diagnosis, according to results published in CHEST.

For patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension, balloon pulmonary angioplasty was associated with an improvement in pulmonary hemodynamic parameters and quality of life measures, data from a single-center study show.

Selexipag improved pulmonary vascular resistance and other hemodynamic variables among patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension, according to results published in European Respiratory Journal.

As a rarer form of pulmonary hypertension, chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension, or CTEPH, often receives less attention than other pulmonary vascular diseases. However, it remains the only type of PH that may be cured by surgery.

Patient-reported outcomes significantly improved after pulmonary endarterectomy in patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension, or CTEPH, according to results published in the European Respiratory Journal.

Exercise intolerance was common among patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension, or CTEPH, after undergoing pulmonary endarterectomy, despite hemodynamic normalization, according to researchers.