Hepatopulmonary syndrome in patients with chronic liver disease: role of pulse oximetry

BACKGROUND: Hepatopulmonary syndrome (HPS) is a rare complication of liver diseases of different etiologies and may indicate a poor prognosis. Therefore, a simple non-invasive screening method to detect HPS would be highly desirable. In this study pulse oximetry was evaluated to identify patients wi...

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Autores principales: Deibert, Peter, Allgaier, Hans-Peter, Loesch, Stefanie, Müller, Claudia, Olschewski, Manfred, Hamm, Hinrich, Maier, Klaus-Peter, Blum, Hubert Erich
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1508152/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16638132
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-230X-6-15

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1508152/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16638132
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-230X-6-15

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