Review: Hepatopulmonary syndrome and portopulmonary hypertension

Acta Gastro-Enterologica Belgica

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 286-294

  De Coninck, S ^a,b   Van Vlierberghe, H ^a   De Vos, M ^a   Elewaut, A ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b NONE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Hepatopulmonary syndrome; Liver cirrhosis; Liver transplantation; Portal hypertension; Portopulmonary hypertension

Indexed keywords

ALMITRINE; INDOMETACIN; METHYLENE BLUE; PROSTACYCLIN; SOMATOSTATIN; TECHNETIUM 99M;

ARTERIAL GAS; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; GARLIC; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HEPATOPULMONARY SYNDROME; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG BLOOD FLOW; LUNG BLOOD VOLUME; LUNG PERFUSION; LUNG VASCULAR RESISTANCE; OXYGENATION; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; REVIEW; SURVIVAL RATE; SYSTEMIC VASCULAR RESISTANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HEPATOPULMONARY SYNDROME; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS;

EID: 0034798431     PISSN: 00015644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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