Evaluation of contrast echocardiography and lung perfusion scan in detecting intrapulmonary vascular dilatation in normoxemic patients with early liver cirrhosis

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 45, Issue 24, 1998, Pages 2303-2307

  Mimidis, Konstantinos P ^a   Vassilakos I, Pavlos ^a   Mastorakou, Anna N ^a   Spiropoulos V, Konstantinos ^a   Lambropoulou Karatza, Chrissoula A ^a   Thomopoulos, Konstantinos C ^a   Tepetes, Konstantinos N ^a   Nikolopoulou, Vassiliki N ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cirrhosis; Echocardiography; Intrapulmonary vascular dilatation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTICLE; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LUNG DIFFUSION CAPACITY; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG PERFUSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASODILATATION;

ADULT; AGED; CONTRAST MEDIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEPATOPULMONARY SYNDROME; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LUNG; LUNG VOLUME MEASUREMENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN; PULMONARY DIFFUSING CAPACITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNETIUM TC 99M AGGREGATED ALBUMIN; VASODILATION; VENTILATION-PERFUSION RATIO;

EID: 0032436192     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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