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Surgical treatment of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension
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Fraser Rubens MD MSc FRCSC1, Phil Wells MD MSc FRCPC2, Steven Bencze MD FRCPC2, Michael Bourke MD FRCPC3 1 Departments of Surgery, 2Medicine and 3Anaesthesia, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario Two patients had concomitant tricuspid valve replacement and one patient had coronary bypass grafting. In three cases, the surgery involved a repeat sternotomy. After surgery, there was a significant drop in the pulmonary vascular resistance (208±92 dynes·s·cm-5, P
