Left ventricle enlargement and increased systolic velocity in the mitral valve are indirect markers of the hepatopulmonary syndrome

Liver International

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1388-1394

  Pouriki, Sophia ^a   Alexopoulou, Alexandra ^a   Chrysochoou, Christina ^a   Raftopoulos, Leonidas ^a   Papatheodoridis, George ^a   Stefanadis, Christodoulos ^a   Pectasides, Dimitrios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cirrhosis; Hepatopulmonary syndrome; Left ventricular end diastolic diameter; Systolic wave at the left lateral wall mitral annulus; Tissue Doppler imaging

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART RIGHT LEFT SHUNT; HEART VENTRICLE SIZE; HEPATOPULMONARY SYNDROME; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LUNG DISEASE; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; OXYGEN SATURATION; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIAL FUNCTION, LEFT; CARDIAC OUTPUT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; GREECE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEMODYNAMICS; HEPATOPULMONARY SYNDROME; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE VOLUME; TRICUSPID VALVE; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 80052533392     PISSN: 14783223     EISSN: 14783231     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-3231.2011.02591.x     Document Type: Article

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