Pulmonary vascular complications of chronic liver disease: Pathophysiology, imaging, and treatment

To review the pathogenesis of pulmonary vascular complications of liver disease, we discuss their clinical implications, and therapeutic considerations, with emphasis on potential reversibility of the hepatopulmonary syndrome after liver transplantation. In this review, we also discuss the role of i...

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Autores principales: Khan, Ali Nawaz, Al-Jahdali, Hamdan, Abdullah, Khalid, Irion, Klaus L., Sabih, Quratulain, Gouda, Alaa
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Publicado: Medknow Publications 2011
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3081557/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21572693
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1737.78412
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author Khan, Ali Nawaz
Al-Jahdali, Hamdan
Abdullah, Khalid
Irion, Klaus L.
Sabih, Quratulain
Gouda, Alaa
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spelling pubmed-30815572011-05-13 Pulmonary vascular complications of chronic liver disease: Pathophysiology, imaging, and treatment Khan, Ali Nawaz Al-Jahdali, Hamdan Abdullah, Khalid Irion, Klaus L. Sabih, Quratulain Gouda, Alaa Ann Thorac Med Review Article To review the pathogenesis of pulmonary vascular complications of liver disease, we discuss their clinical implications, and therapeutic considerations, with emphasis on potential reversibility of the hepatopulmonary syndrome after liver transplantation. In this review, we also discuss the role of imaging in pulmonary vascular complications associated with liver disease. Medknow Publications 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3081557/ /pubmed/21572693 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1737.78412 Text en © Annals of Thoracic Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Khan, Ali Nawaz
Al-Jahdali, Hamdan
Abdullah, Khalid
Irion, Klaus L.
Sabih, Quratulain
Gouda, Alaa
Pulmonary vascular complications of chronic liver disease: Pathophysiology, imaging, and treatment
title Pulmonary vascular complications of chronic liver disease: Pathophysiology, imaging, and treatment
title_full Pulmonary vascular complications of chronic liver disease: Pathophysiology, imaging, and treatment
title_fullStr Pulmonary vascular complications of chronic liver disease: Pathophysiology, imaging, and treatment
title_full_unstemmed Pulmonary vascular complications of chronic liver disease: Pathophysiology, imaging, and treatment
title_short Pulmonary vascular complications of chronic liver disease: Pathophysiology, imaging, and treatment
title_sort pulmonary vascular complications of chronic liver disease: pathophysiology, imaging, and treatment
topic Review Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3081557/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21572693
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1737.78412
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