Pediatric hepatopulmonary syndrome is seen with polysplenia/interrupted inferior vena cava and without cirrhosis

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 680-686

  Gupta, Nitika Arora ^a   Abramowsky, Carlos ^a   Pillen, Todd ^b   Redd, Douglas ^c   Fasola, Carlos ^a   Heffron, Thomas ^a   Romero, Rene ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA   (United States)

^c Northlake Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN; OXYGEN;

ACCESSORY SPLEEN; ADOLESCENT; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEPATOPULMONARY SYNDROME; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN OBSTRUCTION; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG BLOOD VESSEL; MALE; OXYGEN SATURATION; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD FLOW; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE OXIMETRY; SCORING SYSTEM; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT INDICATION; VASODILATATION;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; FEMALE; HEPATOPULMONARY SYNDROME; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PREVALENCE; SPLEEN; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SYNDROME; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR;

EID: 34249067060     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.21113     Document Type: Article

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