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Heterotopic Auxiliary Rat Liver Transplantation With Flow-regulated Portal Vein Arterialization in Acute Hepatic Failure
Published on: September 13, 2014
Late resolution of hepatopulmonary syndrome after liver transplantation
F Philit1, T Wiesendanger, D Gille
1Service de Pneumologie et Laboratoire d'Explorations Fonctionnelles Respiratoires, Hôpital Louis Pradel, Lyon, France.
Abstract:
We report a 38-year-old patient with hepatopulmonary syndrome related to posthepatitis C liver cirrhosis. After liver transplantation, hypoxemia initially worsened markedly, then resolved completely 14 months after transplantation. Liver transplantation may be a reliable treatment of hepatopulmonary syndrome, but clinicians should be aware that the correction of hypoxemia may be delayed and that transient deterioration is possible.
