[Hypoxia in cirrhotic patients. Apropos of a case].
The authors report a case of hypoxia in a non-smoking cirrhotic patient. The pathophysiological hypotheses proposed to date to explain this hypoxia without pulmonary artery hypertension, but accompanied by disturbances of carbon monoxide transport, reveal a common element which is difficult to diagnose and quantify: intra-pulmonary shunts. The authors consider gamma-angiocardiography to be a simple diagnostic procedure.
Hôpital Saint-François, Service de Pneumologie, CHU de Strasbourg.
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Seibert
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Quoix
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Petitjean
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Vandevenne
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D004108:Dilatation, Pathologic; D006801:Humans; D000860:Hypoxia / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D008104:Liver Cirrhosis, Alcoholic / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D008168:Lung / Q000098:blood supply / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging
Hypoxie des cirrhotiques. A propos d'une observation.