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Pulmonary hypertension after liver transplantation: Case presentation and review of the literature

✍ Scribed by David G. Koch; Michael Caplan; Adrian Reuben

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Weight: 315 KB
Volume: 15
Category: Article
ISSN: 1527-6465
DOI: 10.1002/lt.21713

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✦ Synopsis

Hepatopulmonary syndrome and portopulmonary hypertension are the most common pulmonary vascular complications in patients with cirrhosis. Usually but not universally mutually exclusive, they each may present prior to liver transplantation and, if severe enough, may be a contraindication to transplant. However, there have been a number of case reports describing patients developing pulmonary hypertension de novo after liver transplantation. This report describes one such patient from our institution and reviews the medical literature describing this unusual clinical entity.

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