Localizing intrapulmonary shunt in hepatopulmonary syndrome by transesophageal echocardiography.
Transesophageal echocardiography combining with peripheral injection of agitated saline solution is a useful diagnostic tool to detect the intrapulmonary shunt. We performed transesophageal contrast echocardiography in a case of hepatopulmonary syndrome with normal pulmonary angiography to define the intrapulmonary right-to-left shunt bilaterally.
Ho
W J
WJ
Department of Internal Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Chu
P H
PH
Chiang
S Y
SY
Chiang
C W
CW
D000328:Adult; D000792:Angiography; D004417:Dyspnea / Q000209:etiology; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D020065:Hepatopulmonary Syndrome / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000098:blood supply* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008297:Male; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D013668:Technetium Tc 99m Aggregated Albumin
D013668:Technetium Tc 99m Aggregated Albumin