Natural history of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary disease with no or mild pulmonary hypertension

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BACKGROUND: We describe baseline characteristics, disease progression and mortality in chronic thromboembolic pulmonary disease patients as a function of mean pulmonary artery pressure (mPAP) according to new and previous definitions of pulmonary hypertension.

METHODS: All patients diagnosed with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary disease between January, 2015 and December, 2019 were dichotomized according to initial mPAP: ≤ 20 mmHg ('normal') vs 21-24 mmHg ('mildly-elevated'). Baseline features were compared between the groups, and pairwise analysis performed to determine changes in clinical endpoints at 1-year, excluding those who underwent pulmonary endarterectomy or did not attend follow-up. Mortality was assessed for the whole cohort over the entire study period.

RESULTS: One hundred thirteen patients were included; 57 had mPAP ≤ 20 mmHg and 56 had mPAP 21-24 mmHg. Normal mPAP patients had lower pulmonary vascular resistance (1.6 vs 2.5WU, p < 0.01) and right ventricular end-diastolic pressure (5.9 vs 7.8 mmHg, p < 0.01) at presentation. At 3 years, no major deterioration was seen in either group. No patients were treated with pulmonary artery vasodilators. Eight had undergone pulmonary endarterectomy. Over 37 months median follow-up, mortality was 7.0% in the normal mPAP group and 8.9% in the mildly-elevated mPAP group. Cause of death was malignancy in 62.5% of cases.

CONCLUSIONS: Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary disease patients with mild pulmonary hypertension have statistically higher right ventricular end-diastolic pressure and pulmonary vascular resistance than those with mPAP ≤ 20 mmHg. Baseline characteristics were otherwise similar. Neither group displayed disease progression on non-invasive tests up to 3 years. Mortality over 37 months follow-up is 8%, and mainly attributable to malignancy. Further prospective study is required to validate these findings.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:42

Enthalten in:

The Journal of heart and lung transplantation : the official publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation - 42(2023), 9 vom: 16. Sept., Seite 1275-1285

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Reddy, Sathineni A [VerfasserIn]
Swietlik, Emilia M [VerfasserIn]
Robertson, Lucy [VerfasserIn]
Michael, Alice [VerfasserIn]
Boyle, Sonja [VerfasserIn]
Polwarth, Gary [VerfasserIn]
Screaton, Nick J [VerfasserIn]
Ruggiero, Alessandro [VerfasserIn]
Nethercott, Sarah L [VerfasserIn]
Taboada, Dolores [VerfasserIn]
Sheares, Karen K [VerfasserIn]
Hadinnapola, Charaka [VerfasserIn]
Cannon, John E [VerfasserIn]
Bunclark, Katherine [VerfasserIn]
Jenkins, David [VerfasserIn]
Ng, Choo [VerfasserIn]
Toshner, Mark R [VerfasserIn]
Pepke-Zaba, Joanna [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Health outcomes
Journal Article
Pulmonary vascular disease
Thromboembolic disease

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Date Completed 14.08.2023

Date Revised 16.08.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.healun.2023.04.016

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM357042271