TY - JOUR AU - Schweikert, Bernd AU - Pittrow, David AU - Vizza, Carmine Dario AU - Pepke-Zaba, Joanna AU - Hoeper, Marius M. AU - Gabriel, Anja AU - Berg, Jenny AU - Sikirica, Mirko PY - 2014 DA - 2014/06/09 TI - Demographics, clinical characteristics, health resource utilization and cost of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension patients: retrospective results from six European countries JO - BMC Health Services Research SP - 246 VL - 14 IS - 1 AB - Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension (CTEPH) results from incomplete resolution of a pulmonary embolus, leading to pulmonary hypertension and progressive right heart failure and death. We aimed to describe the demographics, treatment patterns, health resource utilization and related costs of patients with CTEPH. SN - 1472-6963 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-14-246 DO - 10.1186/1472-6963-14-246 ID - Schweikert2014 ER -