The Hepato-Pulmonary-Cutaneous Syndrome: Description of a Case and Suggestion of a Unifying Hypothesis

We report a 54-year-old patient with the association of hepatic dysfunction with cyanosis, severe hypoxemia, platypnea-orthodeoxia, diffuse cutaneous spider nevi, telangiectasia, palmar erythema, digital clubbing and findings of marked intrapulmonary vascular dilation and arterovenous shunt. The dia...

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Autores principales: Capodicasa, Enrico, De Bellis, Federica, Muscat, Christopher
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2010
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Published: August 2010
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3047757/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21373385
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000319502
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author Capodicasa, Enrico
De Bellis, Federica
Muscat, Christopher
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De Bellis, Federica
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description We report a 54-year-old patient with the association of hepatic dysfunction with cyanosis, severe hypoxemia, platypnea-orthodeoxia, diffuse cutaneous spider nevi, telangiectasia, palmar erythema, digital clubbing and findings of marked intrapulmonary vascular dilation and arterovenous shunt. The diagnosis of hepato-pulmonary-cutaneous syndrome, a term we think more appropriate and inclusive than that of hepato-pulmonary syndrome for this clinicopathological picture, is proposed. The putative underlying mechanism for these connected pulmonary and extrapulmonary syndromic features is discussed.
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spelling pubmed-30477572011-03-03 The Hepato-Pulmonary-Cutaneous Syndrome: Description of a Case and Suggestion of a Unifying Hypothesis Capodicasa, Enrico De Bellis, Federica Muscat, Christopher Case Rep Gastroenterol Published: August 2010 We report a 54-year-old patient with the association of hepatic dysfunction with cyanosis, severe hypoxemia, platypnea-orthodeoxia, diffuse cutaneous spider nevi, telangiectasia, palmar erythema, digital clubbing and findings of marked intrapulmonary vascular dilation and arterovenous shunt. The diagnosis of hepato-pulmonary-cutaneous syndrome, a term we think more appropriate and inclusive than that of hepato-pulmonary syndrome for this clinicopathological picture, is proposed. The putative underlying mechanism for these connected pulmonary and extrapulmonary syndromic features is discussed. S. Karger AG 2010-08-02 /pmc/articles/PMC3047757/ /pubmed/21373385 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000319502 Text en Copyright © 2010 by S. Karger AG, Basel http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No-Derivative-Works License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Users may download, print and share this work on the Internet for noncommercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited, and a link to the original work on http://www.karger.com and the terms of this license are included in any shared versions.
spellingShingle Published: August 2010
Capodicasa, Enrico
De Bellis, Federica
Muscat, Christopher
The Hepato-Pulmonary-Cutaneous Syndrome: Description of a Case and Suggestion of a Unifying Hypothesis
title The Hepato-Pulmonary-Cutaneous Syndrome: Description of a Case and Suggestion of a Unifying Hypothesis
title_full The Hepato-Pulmonary-Cutaneous Syndrome: Description of a Case and Suggestion of a Unifying Hypothesis
title_fullStr The Hepato-Pulmonary-Cutaneous Syndrome: Description of a Case and Suggestion of a Unifying Hypothesis
title_full_unstemmed The Hepato-Pulmonary-Cutaneous Syndrome: Description of a Case and Suggestion of a Unifying Hypothesis
title_short The Hepato-Pulmonary-Cutaneous Syndrome: Description of a Case and Suggestion of a Unifying Hypothesis
title_sort hepato-pulmonary-cutaneous syndrome: description of a case and suggestion of a unifying hypothesis
topic Published: August 2010
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3047757/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21373385
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000319502
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