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Ann Thorac Surg 2001;72:18-19
© 2001 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Invited commentary

Sidney Chocron, MD, PhD^{a a} Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Hospital of the University of Besancon, Pole Cur-Poumon, Blvd Fleming, 25030, Besancon, France

e-mail: chocron@usa.net

Venous thromboembolism is the third most prevalent cardiovascular disease after coronary artery disease and stroke. Remy-Jardin and coworkers [1] reported that only 48% of patients showed complete resolution of their acute thrombotic obstruction and 13% presented chronic thromboembolic changes 11 months after treatment for acute pulmonary embolism.

Thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension has a very poor prognosis: from 30% to 10% 5-year survival according to mean pulmonary artery pressure. Despite promising functional results obtained with . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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