Chinese Med J Peking
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Chinese Med J Peking · Nov 2009
Prospective evaluation of postoperative outcome after liver transplantation in hepatopulmonary syndrome patients.
Only a few reviews of small case series and individual case reports including a relatively small number of adult patients undergoing liver transplantation for hepatopulmonary syndrome (HPS) are available, and there has been no prospective evaluation of the long-term outcome of HPS patients after orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT). The aim of this study was to determine the frequency of HPS in OLT patients with chronic end-stage liver-disease, and the short-term and long-term postoperative outcome of HPS patients after OLT. ⋯ Liver transplantation was an effective treatment for HPS. But the postoperative mortality rate following OLT in HPS patients was still much higher than that of patients without HPS.