Hepatopulmonary syndrome in HIV-hepatitis C virus coinfection: a case report and review of the literature.
A wide array of diagnoses must be considered when a patient with advanced liver disease and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection presents with hypoxemia. It is important to entertain the possibility of hepatopulmonary syndrome (HPS) in such patients, a diagnosis that must be confirmed with a contrast-enhanced echocardiogram (bubble study). We describe a case of HPS diagnosed in a patient with HIV infection and chronic liver disease and review the literature on HPS.
Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California at Los Angeles, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, USA. Mauro_Torno@ci.long-beach.ca.us
Mauro S
MS
Torno
Mallory D
MD
Witt
Darryl Y
DY
Sue
D000328:Adult; D004452:Echocardiography; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000150:complications*; D019698:Hepatitis C, Chronic / Q000150:complications*; D020065:Hepatopulmonary Syndrome / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy / Q000821:virology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male