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The importance of establishing the diagnosis of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) centers on the observation that with a thromboendarterectomy, this pulmonary vascular disease is potentially curable. As a result, a careful assessment of patients at-risk for or suspected of having CTEPH is essential, and this case presentation illustrates an appropriate approach for such an evaluation.
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Kanwar, M., Gopalan, D., Auger, W.R. (2020). Case 1: The Evaluation of Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension. In: Auger, W., Gopalan, D. (eds) Clinical Cases in Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension. Clinical Cases in Cardiology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17366-1_1
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