Left atrial volume: A novel predictor of hepatopulmonary syndrome

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 102, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1392-1396

  Zamirian, Mahmood ^a,b   Aslani, Amir ^a   Shahrzad, Shahab ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM ENLARGEMENT; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART VOLUME; HEPATOPULMONARY SYNDROME; HUMAN; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG ALVEOLUS OXYGEN TENSION; LUNG BLOOD VESSEL; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VASODILATATION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BIOPSY; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; CARDIAC VOLUME; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HEART ATRIA; HEPATOPULMONARY SYNDROME; HUMANS; LIVER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 34250795818     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.2007.01228.x     Document Type: Article

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