Overview
- Hospital Álvaro Cunqueiro is one of five centers in Spain accredited to perform balloon pulmonary angioplasty for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension.
- The multidisciplinary program has treated 12 patients since launching in 2021, according to the hospital team.
- The catheter-based procedure uses small balloons to clear pulmonary artery blockages and typically requires four to six sessions per patient.
- Clinicians report symptom relief and a lower mortality risk for non-surgical candidates treated with this approach.
- Doctors say referrals have mostly arrived from Ourense so far, and they aim to centralize Galician cases at the Vigo center.