The diagnosis of HPS depends on establishing that impaired gas exchange in a patient with liver disease is due to pulmonary vascular dilatation. In most cases, the results of arterial blood gases and ...

Previously in the Journal, we reported on a 4-year-old boy with the hepatopulmonary syndrome, a condition characterized by intrapulmonary shunting due to dilatation of pulmonary vessels in the setting ...

The characteristics of hepatopulmonary syndrome include an oxygen saturation < 80%, an increased alveolar-arterial gradient (> 15 mm Hg) while breathing room air, portal hypertension with or without ...

We recently described the TEMPI syndrome (Aug. 4, 2011), 1 which is characterized by the pentad of telangiectasias, elevated erythropoietin level and erythrocytosis, monoclonal gammopathy, perinephric ...

The impact of body mass index and serum albumin in patients with advanced-stage non-small cell lung cancer. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2022 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract does not ...

Hepatopulmonary syndrome (HPS) is a serious vascular complication of liver disease that occurs in 5–32% of patients with cirrhosis. The presence of HPS markedly increases mortality. No effective ...