Non-cirrhotic portal hypertension with hypoxaemia.
Hypoxaemia and digital clubbing are rare but well recognised associations of hepatic cirrhosis with portal hypertension. We report the first European patient with idiopathic non-cirrhotic portal hypertension complicated by these features. Pulmonary physiological studies show the hypoxaemia to be the result of anatomical and physiological intrapulmonary shunting.
Babbs
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University Department of Gastroenterology, Manchester Royal Infirmary.
Warnes
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Haboubi
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D000293:Adolescent; D006801:Humans; D006975:Hypertension, Portal / Q000150:complications*; D000860:Hypoxia / Q000209:etiology*; D008103:Liver Cirrhosis / Q000150:complications; D008297:Male; D010005:Osteoarthropathy, Secondary Hypertrophic / Q000209:etiology