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that increased BPA class of recommendation from IIb to I&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0001"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">1</span></a></p><p id="para0008" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">A careful consideration of the patient age and functional status as well as lesion location and response to medical therapy seems particularly relevant as this disease is associated with a high morbidity&#44; mortality and health related costs&#46; This case is intended to reflect how a multimodality approach was essential to improve this young patient&#39;s quality of life and prognosis&#46;</p></span>"
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Letter to the Editor
Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension – the challenging approach of a young patient with distal disease
M. Martinhoa,
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mariana.martinho6@gmail.com

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, R. Caléa, F. Ferreiraa, S. Alegriaa, A. Santosb, A.C. Vieirac, D. Repolhoa, S. Vitorinoa, C. Saraivab, H. Pereiraa
a Cardiology Department, Hospital Garcia de Orta, Almada, Portugal
b Radiology Department, Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Ocidental, Lisboa, Portugal
c Pulmonology Department, Hospital Garcia de Orta, Almada, Portugal
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Due to high probability of pH&#44; the patient was submitted to a right heart catheterization &#40;RHC&#41; that confirmed pre-capillary PH with multiple high-risk criteria &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#tbl0001">Table 1</a>&#41;&#46; CTEPH was diagnosed after the etiologic workup revealed multiple and bilateral perfusion defects in ventilation&#47;perfusion scan&#59; blood tests &#40;including liver and thyroid function&#44; serologies and autoimmunity&#41; and pulmonary function test were normal&#46; Screening for acquired or genetic thrombophilia was also negative&#46; Computed tomography pulmonary angiography was highly compatible with CTEPH and revealed multiple bilateral segmental and mostly subsegmental pulmonary artery filling defects &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0001">Fig&#46; 1</a>&#41;&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="fig0001"></elsevierMultimedia><elsevierMultimedia ident="tbl0001"></elsevierMultimedia><p id="para0005" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Due to very distal disease &#40;mostly affecting the subsegmental branches and microvasculature&#41;&#44; the patient was considered inoperable by an expert and high-volume surgical center and medical therapy alone was proposed&#46; Combined PVT was started with oral Bosentan and intravenous Epoprostenol delivered by a Hickman line&#46; Switch to subcutaneous Treprostinil was motivated by a total thrombosis of the internal jugular vein &#40;despite adjusted oral anticoagulation by the I&#46;N&#46;R&#46;&#41;&#46; Gradual switch to oral Selexipag was needed due to refractory pain in the injection site&#46;</p><p id="para0006" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">After 3 months under optimized PVT &#40;Riociguat 2&#46;5&#8239;mg t&#46;i&#46;d&#46;&#44; Bosentan 125&#8239;mg b&#46;i&#46;d&#46; and Selexipag 1600&#160;&#956;g b&#46;i&#46;d&#46;&#41; the patient retained several increased-risk criteria&#46; Therefore&#44; he integrated a BPA program of seven sessions &#40;a total of 11 segments&#44; 31 vessels&#41;&#46; Follow-up performed at 6 months showed significant clinical improvement &#40;WHO class I and suspension of LTOT&#41;&#44; as well as right heart dimension and function on echocardiogram and only residual pH on RHC &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#tbl0001">Table 1</a>&#41;&#46;</p><p id="para0007" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">CTEPH treatment is very complex and requires management by a multidisciplinary team&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0001"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">1</span></a> PEA is the treatment of choice as it may cure the disease and effectively improve symptoms and survival &#40;reported as &#62;75&#37; at 3 years&#41;&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0001"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">1&#8211;3</span></a> However&#44; since its feasibility depends on the nature and location of the lesions&#44; it is only possible for fewer than 60&#37; of cases<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0001"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">1</span></a><span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#44;</span><a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0004"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">4</span></a><span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#44;</span><a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0006"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">6</span></a> either because patients are technically inoperable &#40;distal lesions not accessible by surgery&#41; or because comorbidities impose a high surgical risk&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0001"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">1</span></a> Furthermore&#44; approximately 50&#37; of operated patients maintain residual PH or have recurrent disease&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0004"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">4</span></a> For inoperable patients&#44; for those with residual or recurrent CTEPH after surgery and also for very distal disease&#44; PVT is recommended to change the microvascular remodeling in response to obstruction&#44; allowing symptom reduction and improvement in functional capacity&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0001"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">1</span></a><span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#44;</span><a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0002"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">2</span></a><span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#44;</span><a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0004"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">4&#8211;6</span></a> Although targeting endogenous nitric oxide&#44; prostacyclin and endothelin pathways may help improve symptoms and haemodynamics in CTEPH patients&#44; medical therapy alone does not cure the disease and these patients still have high mortality rates when compared to surgery&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0005"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">5</span></a><span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#44;</span><a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0006"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">6</span></a> Hence&#44; percutaneous reperfusion of segmental and subsegmental lesions with BPA emerged as an option for patients unsuitable to surgery or with residual&#47;recurrent disease after PEA&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0001"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">1</span></a><span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#44;</span><a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0002"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">2</span></a><span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#44;</span><a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0005"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">5</span></a><span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#44;</span><a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0006"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">6</span></a> Besides there is increasing evidence supporting its efficacy in improving symptoms&#44; right heart function and haemodynamics&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0001"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">1</span></a><span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#44;</span><a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0002"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">2</span></a><span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#44;</span><a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0005"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">5&#8211;7</span></a> increasing experience and refinement of the technique significantly reduced rates of severe complications related to BPA &#40;such as reperfusion pulmonary edema&#44; bleeding or wire injuries&#41;&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0001"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">1</span></a> making its effectiveness comparable to surgery &#40;2-year survival rate of 94&#46;5&#37; in a Japanese multicentric registry&#41;&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0007"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">7</span></a> These results are reflected in the most recent European guidelines on pH&#44; that increased BPA class of recommendation from IIb to I&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0001"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">1</span></a></p><p id="para0008" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">A careful consideration of the patient age and functional status as well as lesion location and response to medical therapy seems particularly relevant as this disease is associated with a high morbidity&#44; mortality and health related costs&#46; This case is intended to reflect how a multimodality approach was essential to improve this young patient&#39;s quality of life and prognosis&#46;</p></span>"
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          "en" => "<p id="spara001" class="elsevierStyleSimplePara elsevierViewall">Imaging findings before and after combined treatment with pulmonary vasodilator therapy and balloon pulmonary angioplasty&#46;</p> <p id="spara002" class="elsevierStyleSimplePara elsevierViewall">Capture A&#58; Vascular and pulmonary findings of chronic thromboembolism on CT pulmonary angiography&#46; &#40;A1&#41; and &#40;A2&#41; Axial plane images reveal main pulmonary artery dilation &#40;arrow&#41;&#44; linear filling defects within pulmonary arterial vessels &#8211; webs &#40;arrowhead&#41;&#44; caused by residual thrombotic material&#44; and bronchial arteries dilation followed by abrupt transition of size&#44; irregularity and stenosis of multiple peripheral arteries &#40;short arrows&#41;&#46; &#40;A3&#41; Mosaic perfusion pattern &#40;MinIP reconstruction image&#44; coronal plane&#41; defined by variable lung attenuation and due to heterogeneity of lung parenchyma&#44; in which hypoperfused peripheral regions have low attenuation &#40;&#42;&#41; compared to those of normal lung perfusion&#46;</p> <p id="spara003" class="elsevierStyleSimplePara elsevierViewall">Capture B&#58; Comparison of chest X-ray before and after treatment &#40;B1 and B2&#44; respectively&#41;&#46; &#40;B1&#41; Severe cardiomegaly&#44; dilation of the right atrium &#40;&#42;&#41;&#44; dilation of the main pulmonary artery and right pulmonary enlargement &#40;arrows&#41;&#46; &#40;B2&#41; Almost normal chest x-ray after treatment&#46;</p> <p id="spara004" class="elsevierStyleSimplePara elsevierViewall">Captures C to E&#58; Comparison of transthoracic echocardiogram images before and after treatment &#40;C1-E1 and C2-E2&#44; respectively&#41;&#46; &#40;C1&#41; End-diastolic short-axis view showing severe right ventricle &#40;RV&#41; dilation and interventricular septum deviation to the left caused by RV pressure overload &#40;interventricular septal D-shape &#8211; short arrows&#41;&#44; significantly impairing left ventricle diastolic filling&#46; &#40;D1&#41; and E1&#41; Apical four-chamber end-diastolic view &#40;D&#41; and Doppler mid-systolic image &#40;E&#41; showing initial dilated and hypertrophied RV &#40;arrowheads&#41;&#44; severely dilated right atrium &#40;RA&#41;&#44; associated with severe tricuspid regurgitation with an estimated PSAP of 88&#8239;mmHg&#46; After treatment there was a significant decrease in right chambers&#8217; size with only mild tricuspid regurgitation and improvement of LV diastolic filling&#46;</p>"
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