Blood clots in the lungs can cause high blood pressure in the heart's arteries, a serious condition. This can turn into a chronic ...

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Pulmonary Embolism: Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment | Dr Bagirath Raghuraman

hello everybody I am Dr bagat raguraman working as senior consultant cardiologist and program director of heart transplant at Nar Health City bangaluru this is to introduce the topic of chronic pulmonary thrombo embolism with pulmonary hypertension as well as balloon pulmonary anoplasty first of all chronic pulmonary thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension is a condition wherein the initial phase of pulmonary embolism has settled and passed Beyond a timeline of 3 months the moment a pulmonary embolism crosses from 3 months and Beyond it is called it transits from the stage of being acute pulm embolism to Chronic pulm embolism now the ways to treat chronic pulmonary embolism are basically two main types you have surgery which is called as pulmonary thromboendarterectomy surgery you also have another type of treatment called as balloon pulmonary anoplasty first of all the surgical aspect that is the pulmonary thrombo otomy surgery is done for Stanford classification level one and level two disease meaning proximal disease the balloon pulmonary anoplasty is done for level three and level four disease meaning distal disease these are usually less accessible to the surgeon at the time of surgery and we follow up after a surgical procedure or if the patient has predominantly distal Disease by doing balloon pulm anoplasty procedure there is also a different combination that is available called as a hybrid procedure wherein the surgeon first does the pulmonary thrombo aromy surgery and we follow up by doing a balloon pulmonary anoplasty so that there is complete resolution of the thrombus burden for these unfortunate patients of CF [Music]

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