pulmonary arterial hypertension due to chronic pulmonary thromboembolism
Conditions
Interventions
Sponsors
Medical Education Center, Keio University School of Medicine
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: patients with chronic pulmonary thromboembolism who are refractory to other therapy and maladjustive for pulmonary endoarterectomy
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: patients who can not express subjective symptoms, whose objective improvement cannot be evaluated, who have systemic hypertension, who have bleeding complications, who have critical liver dysfunction, who are under pregnancy or breast-feeding, and who have critical left heart disease
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| symptom (NYHA classfication), 6 minutes walk test, right heart catheterization, computed tomography for evaluation of pulmonary artery, ventilation-perfusion scan, echocardiography | — |
Countries
Japan
Outcome results
None listed