• Am. J. Cardiol. · Sep 1996

    Right ventricular pathology in chronic pulmonary hypertension.

    • S P Bradley, W R Auger, K M Moser, P F Fedullo, R N Channick, and C M Bloor.
    • Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego Medical Center, USA.
    • Am. J. Cardiol. 1996 Sep 1; 78 (5): 584-7.

    AbstractRight ventricular free wall biopsy specimens in 40 patients undergoing surgery for relief of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension were normal in 5%, disclosed only myocyte hypertrophy in 80%, mild focal fibrosis in 12.5%, and myocarditis in 2.5%. There was no relation between postsurgical functional or hemodynamic outcomes and the presence of focal fibrosis.

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