Forward-looking troop established(constituted) by the patients having been included in the study " PADIS EP ", PHRC on 2006 and 2009, randomized checked(controlled), double-blind, comparing an anticoagulating treatment(processing) extended by coumadine versus placebo during 18 months at patients having had a first episode of EP idiopathique treated(handled) initially 6 months by anti-vitamin K.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
235
No drug and no placebo were used in this study. Some exams must be performed (DLCO - evaluation of the dyspnoea and pulmonary scintigraphy), and in function of the result of the pulmonary scintigraphy, the medical care of the patient will be different : negative pulmonary scintigraphy, stop of the explorations and taken care usual of the patients; positive pulmonary scintigraphy,realisation of a cardiac echography to estimate the presence or not of a not very probable, possible or likely HTP. The indication of the right cardiac catheterization is then put on the combination of the results of the cardiac echography and the evaluation of the dyspnoea.
CHRU de Brest
Brest, France
CHU Clermont-Ferrand
Clermont-Ferrand, France
CH de Lannion
Lannion, France
Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou
Paris, France
Frequency of a HTPPE
Time frame: 24 months
Mortality and cause
Time frame: 24 months
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Hôpital Rangueuil
Toulouse, France