Serial pulse oximetry in hepatopulmonary syndrome

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1862-1868

  Kochar, Rajan ^a,b   Tanikella, Rajasekhar ^a   Fallon, Michael B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast echocardiography; Hepatopulmonary syndrome; Intrapulmonary vasodilation; Liver transplantation; Pulse oximetry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BACTERIAL PERITONITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; FEMALE; HEPATOPULMONARY SYNDROME; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MALE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; OXYGENATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULSE OXIMETRY; VASODILATATION;

ADULT; AGED; ANOXIA; FEMALE; HEPATOPULMONARY SYNDROME; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXIMETRY; OXYGEN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79959724619     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: 15732568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10620-011-1600-7     Document Type: Article

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