The United States Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension Registry: Protocol for a Prospective, Longitudinal Study

Kim M Kerr   ¹ , MD ;   C Greg Elliott   ² , MD ;   Raymond L Benza   ³ , MD ;   Richard N Channick   ⁴ , MD ;   Kelly M Chin   ⁵ , MD ;   R Duane Davis   ⁶ , MD ;   Sonia Jain   ⁷ , PhD ;   Andrea Z LaCroix   ⁸ , PhD ;   Michael M Madani   ⁹ , MD ;   Vallerie V McLaughlin   ¹⁰ , MD ;   Myung H Park   ¹¹ , MD ;   Victor F Tapson   ¹² , MD ;   William R Auger   ¹³ , MD

¹ Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States

² Department of Medicine, Intermountain Medical Center, Murray, UT, United States

³ Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States

⁴ Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States

⁵ Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, TX, United States

⁶ Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery, AdventHealth Transplant Institute, Orlando, FL, United States

⁷ Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States

⁸ Division of Epidemiology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States

⁹ Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States

¹⁰ Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

¹¹ Department of Cardiology, Virginia Mason Franciscan Health, Tacoma, WA, United States

¹² Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, United States

¹³ Division of Cardiology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, United States