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The treatment of choice for symptomatic chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) is pulmonary endarterectomy (Annals of Thoracic Surgery 76:1457-1462, 2003). This is the only proven treatment to offer significant symptomatic and prognostic benefit. The operation, as performed today, was developed by Jamieson at the University of California in San Diego (UCSD), and this unit is the world leader having now completed over 2,000 procedures. CTEPH has been reviewed extensively recently (Circulation 113(16):2011-2020, 2006), and a detailed explanation of the technical aspects of surgery is available as part of a series of seminars on CTEPH (Seminars in Thoracic Cardiovascular Surgery 18:243-249, 2006). The most complete account of surgery for this condition and the development of the service at UCSD is by Stuart Jamieson himself in a detailed specialist monograph (Current Problems in Surgery 37(3):165-252, 2000).
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Jenkins, D.P. (2009). Surgical Management of Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension (CTEPH). In: Abraham, D., Clive, H., Dashwood, M., Coghlan, G. (eds) Advances in Vascular Medicine. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-637-3_14
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