Hepatopulmonary Syndrome
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13. Alteracões na função pulmonar secundárias a cirrose hepática
Hepatic cirrhosis and its consequences have intrigued doctors for a long time, specially by its multi-systemic extent and also because the Medical Science has not yet revealed a great part of the aspects of biochemical and cellular metabolism which are affected by chronic hepatic malfunction. Although written more than a hundred years ago in a rather empiric
IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia. Publicado em: 1995
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14. The hepatopulmonary syndrome: new name, old complexities.
On the basis of previous work, our own experience and findings, and the considerations discussed above, we propose a set of four diagnostic criteria for the hepatopulmonary syndrome: 1. presence of chronic hepatic disease (alcoholic, postnecrotic, or primary biliary cirrhosis or active chronic hepatitis)--severe liver dysfunction may not be mandatory; 2. abs
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15. Spontaneous improvement in a patient with the hepatopulmonary syndrome assessed by serial exercise tests.
A 37 year old patient with chronic active hepatitis progressing to cirrhosis presented with increasing breathlessness and was found to be hypoxic with finger clubbing. A progressive exercise study with measurement of oxygen saturation (SaO2) showed abnormally high ventilation and desaturation to 81% at 100 W. Serial studies over nearly two years showed, firs