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1 Familial Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension
Julianna Desmarais, MD, C. Gregory Elliott, MD  CHEST  Volume 149, Issue 4, Pages e99-e101 (April 2016) DOI: /j.chest Copyright © 2016 American College of Chest Physicians Terms and Conditions

2 Figure 1 Chronic thromboembolic material from patient 2.
CHEST  , e99-e101DOI: ( /j.chest ) Copyright © 2016 American College of Chest Physicians Terms and Conditions

3 Figure 2 Patient family tree. Red represents chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) cases, grey represents suspected fatal pulmonary embolism without proven CTEPH, and blue represents DVT. Each of the thromboembolic events was provoked, and investigations for heritable thrombophilias were negative for the two patients who developed CTEPH. CHEST  , e99-e101DOI: ( /j.chest ) Copyright © 2016 American College of Chest Physicians Terms and Conditions


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