Same‐Day Discharge Following Outpatient Balloon Pulmonary Angioplasty: A Single‐Center Experience

Overnight inpatient monitoring is common following balloon pulmonary angioplasty (BPA) for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH). We describe our institutional experience in same‐day discharge (SDD) after BPA. Across 78 BPA sessions, there were only 2 (2.6%) admissions for hemoptysis...

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Published inPulmonary circulation Vol. 14; no. 4; pp. e70025 - n/a
Main Authors Saha, Amit, Chidester, Jeffrey P., Hall, Hurst M., Shah, Trushil, Chin, Kelly M., Bartolome, Sonja D., Koshy, Thomas P.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.10.2024
John Wiley and Sons Inc
Wiley
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chronic thromboembolic disease
chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension
postprocedure management
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chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension
postprocedure management
chronic thromboembolic disease
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Summary:Overnight inpatient monitoring is common following balloon pulmonary angioplasty (BPA) for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH). We describe our institutional experience in same‐day discharge (SDD) after BPA. Across 78 BPA sessions, there were only 2 (2.6%) admissions for hemoptysis with no reperfusion lung injury or deaths at 30 days.
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ISSN:2045-8940
2045-8932
2045-8940
DOI:10.1002/pul2.70025