Pulmonary evaluation in pediatric liver transplant candidates

Indian Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 171-175

  Dehghani, Seyed Mohsen ^a,b   Aleyasin, Soheyla ^a   Honar, Naser ^a   Eshraghian, Ahad ^a   Kashef, Sara ^a   Haghighat, Mahmood ^a   Malek Hos, Seyed Ali ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Children; Hepatopulmonary syndrome; Hypoxia; Liver transplantation; Pulmonary evaluation

Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL GAS; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT ATRESIA; BLOOD CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; CHILD; CLUBBING FINGERS; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; CYANOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; HEPATOPULMONARY SYNDROME; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG GAS EXCHANGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OXYGEN SATURATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SPIROMETRY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ANOXIA; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; END STAGE LIVER DISEASE; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HEPATOPULMONARY SYNDROME; HUMANS; IRAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; OXYGEN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; SPIROMETRY; VITAL CAPACITY;

EID: 79953874740     PISSN: 00195456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12098-010-0216-9     Document Type: Article

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