Main description:

This practical casebook provides important insight to clinicians looking to learn about the diagnosis and management of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH). It systematically describes the clinical decision-making process for a variety of CTEPH cases, from common to rarely seen examples of this disease. Chapters are constructed in an easy-to-follow format designed to improve the reader's clinical decision-making.

Clinical Cases in Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension features not only a number of CTEPH cases of varying complexity, but also several medical conditions that may mimic CTEPH. It is therefore a vital evidence-based resource for trainee and practising internists, cardiologists, pulmonologists, cardiac surgeons and radiologists looking to expand their knowledge in this area.

Contents:

Overview of Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension.- Case Presentations of CTEPH: main PA obstruction .- Case Presentations of CTEPH: CTE disease.- Case Presentations of CTEPH: "distal vessel"cases.- Case Presentations of CTEPH: chronic thromboembolic pulmonary vascular disease without pulmonary hypertension.- Mimics and competing diagnoses: Mediastinal Fibrosis .- Case presentations: Pulmonary Artery Sarcoma.- Case presentations: Pulmonary arteritis (Takayasu's, Sarcoidosis) .- Case presentations: Proximal pulmonary aneurysms and lining thrombus.- Case Presentations: Other.