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Hepatopulmonary syndrome: a case report
S S Rana1, K Das, N C Krishnamani
1Department of Medicine, Gastroenterology Division, Maulana Azad Medical College and Associated L.N. Hospital, New Delhi, India.
Tropical Gastroenterology : Official Journal of the Digestive Diseases Foundation
|August 13, 2002
Abstract:
The Hepatopulmonary Syndrome (HPS) is one of many extrahepatic manifestations of liver failure. It consists of a triad of liver dysfunction, intrapulmonary vascular dilatation and hypoxemia. We present a case of post necrotic cirrhosis (HBV related) who developed exertional dyspnoea subsequent to the development of hepatopulmonary syndrome.