Hepatopulmonary syndrome: Use of extracorporeal life support for life-threatening hypoxia following liver transplantation

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 966-970

  Fleming, Geoffrey M ^a,c   Cornell, Timothy T ^b   Welling, Theodore H ^b   Magee, John C ^b   Annich, Gail M ^b  

^a MONROE CARELL JR CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT VANDERBILT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; CREATININE; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; NITRIC OXIDE;

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CASE REPORT; CATHETER REMOVAL; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLUBBING FINGERS; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; FATIGUE; FEVER; GENERAL CONDITION DETERIORATION; HEART RIGHT LEFT SHUNT; HEPATOPULMONARY SYNDROME; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG COMPLIANCE; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG INSUFFICIENCY; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; MALE; OXYGEN SATURATION; OXYGENATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SCHOOL CHILD; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TACHYCARDIA; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; TIDAL VOLUME;

ANOXIA; CHILD; EXTRACORPOREAL MEMBRANE OXYGENATION; HEPATOPULMONARY SYNDROME; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE;

EID: 48949120237     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.21477     Document Type: Article

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