Pulmonary hypertension can be independent disease or a symptom of many other diseases, significantly compromising their effect

Sometimes pulmonary hypertension is predetermined by clots in small branches of the pulmonary artery, accompanied by a feeling short of breath during exercise, pain in the chest, dizziness. Such cases require thorough examination and often remain undiagnosed or interpreted as idiopathic or other forms of pulmonary hypertension. It should be noted that the people with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension can be cured by surgery and the remaining patients require specific treatment, that significantly improves quality of life.

Risk factors of thrombosis of pulmonary artery may be vein thrombosis of the lower limbs, broken legs, carried extensive surgery, the presence of an artificial pacemaker or defibrillator, severe heart failure, chronic obstructive lung disease, thyroid disease, tumors, and so on.

On the basis of Lviv Regional Hospital the program, in which patients with inoperable post-embolic chronic pulmonary hypertension may be included, operates. Within it, the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary hypertension are conducted.

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