title: Pulmonary artery embolotherapy in a patient with type I hepatopulmonary syndrome after liver transplantation.
abstract: Although liver transplantation (LT) is the only effective treatment option for hepatopulmonary syndrome (HPS), the post-LT morbidity and mortality have been high for patients with severe HPS. We performed post-LT embolotherapy in a 10-year-old boy who had severe type I HPS preoperatively, but he failed to recover early from his hypoxemic symptoms after an LT. Multiple embolizations were then successfully performed on the major branches that formed the abnormal vascular structures. After the embolotherapy, the patient had symptomatic improvement and he was discharged without complications.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Konkuk University School of Medicine, Seoul 143-729, Korea.
authors.forename: Hae Won
authors.initials: HW
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Kyung-Suk
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Suh
authors.forename: Joohyun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Woo Young
authors.initials: WY
authors.lastname: Shin
authors.forename: Nam-Joon
authors.initials: NJ
authors.lastname: Yi
authors.forename: Hwan Jun
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Jae
authors.forename: Jin Wook
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Chung
authors.forename: So Won
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Oh
authors.forename: Keon Wook
authors.initials: KW
authors.lastname: Kang
authors.forename: Kuhn Uk
authors.initials: KU
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D004452:Echocardiography; D004621:Embolization, Therapeutic / Q000379:methods*; D020065:Hepatopulmonary Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D016031:Liver Transplantation; D008297:Male; D010092:Oximetry; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D011651:Pulmonary Artery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed