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Hepatopulmonary syndrome: angiography and therapeutic embolization
1Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Kyung Hee University Hospital, Hoeki-Dong #1, Dongdaemun-Ku, Seoul 130-702, South Korea.
Clinical Imaging
|March 18, 2003
Abstract:
We report a case where an embolization therapy was successfully performed for diffusely dilated pulmonary vessels in a patient with hepatopulmonary syndrome (HPS) as a palliative treatment before liver transplantation. To our knowledge, this therapeutic approach has been tried only for arteriovenous malformation type HPS, and not for diffuse dilatation [Chest 91 (1987) 920].