Balloon pulmonary angioplasty: are we there yet? Lessons learned and unanswered questions

Mitja Jevnikar; Aleksandar Bokan; Thomas Gille; Laurent Bertoletti; Mona Lichtblau

doi:10.1183/20734735.0217-2022

Balloon pulmonary angioplasty: are we there yet? Lessons learned and unanswered questions

Breathe (Sheff). 2022 Dec;18(4):220217. doi: 10.1183/20734735.0217-2022. Epub 2023 Jan 10.

Authors

Mitja Jevnikar^{1

2

3

4}, Aleksandar Bokan^{5

4}, Thomas Gille^{6

7}, Laurent Bertoletti⁸, Mona Lichtblau⁹

Affiliations

¹ Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (APHP), Service de Pneumologie et Soins Intensifs Respiratoires, Centre de Référence de l'Hypertension Pulmonaire, Hôpital Bicêtre, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France.
² Université Paris-Saclay, Faculté de Médecine, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France.
³ INSERM UMR_S 999, Hôpital Marie Lannelongue, Le Plessis-Robinson, France.
⁴ These authors contributed equally.
⁵ SLK Lungenklinik Loewenstein, Medical Clinic I: Pneumology, Respiratory Medicine and Intensive Medicine, Loewenstein, Germany.
⁶ Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (APHP), Service de Physiologie et Explorations Fonctionnelles, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Paris Seine-Saint-Denis (site Avicenne), Bobigny, France.
⁷ Inserm U1272 "Hypoxia & the Lung", UFR SMBH Léonard de Vinci, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, Bobigny, France.
⁸ CHU de St-Etienne, Service de Médecine Vasculaire et Thérapeutique; INSERM, UMR1059, Université Jean-Monnet; INSERM, CIC-1408, CHU de Saint-Etienne; INNOVTE, CHU de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France.
⁹ Department of Pulmonology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

Abstract

Evidence supporting the use of balloon pulmonary angioplasty #BPA, which has drastically changed management of non-operable chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension #CTEPH, and rationale for a future multimodal approach with combined medical therapy https://bit.ly/3F7ccKD.