Portopulmonary hypertension in the early phase following liver transplantation

Transplantation

Volumn 82, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 887-891

  Saner, Fuat H ^a,d   Nadalin, Silvio ^a   Pavlaković, Goran ^b   Gu, Yanli ^a   Damink, Steven W M Olde ^a,c   Gensicke, Julia ^a   Fruhauf, Nils R ^a   Paul, Andreas ^a   Radtke, Arnold ^a   Sotiropoulos, Georgios C ^a   Malagó, Massimo ^a   Broelsch, Christoph E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Liver transplantation; Portopulmonary hypertension; Pulmonary hemodynamic; Ventilation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG VENTILATION; MORTALITY; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION;

BLOOD PRESSURE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HEART FUNCTION TESTS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33749818032     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.tp.0000235520.37189.fe     Document Type: Article

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