title: [Severe hypoxemic respiratory insufficiency in a patient with hepato-pulmonary syndrome coexisting with interstitial lung disease of unknown etiology].
abstract: The coexistence of the interstitial lung disease and respiratory failure is rarely associated with extrapulmonary pathology. In patients with liver cirrhosis, hypoxemia may develop in the course of hepato-pulmonary syndrome (HPS), but radiological pathology seen in the course of HPS is of vascular origin, and thus typically not classified as interstitial lung disease. We present a patient with severe hypoxemic respiratory insufficiency in whom hepato-pulmonary syndrome coexisted with interstitial lung disease of unknown etiology. The mechanisms of hypoxemia in the course of hepatic diseases and reasons of possible coincidence of lung and hepatic pathology are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Oddział Pulmonologiczny SSZZOZ im. T. Dunina w Rudce, Al. T. Dunina 1, Rudka, 05–320 Mrozy, Poland. pasikp@poczta.onet.pl
authors.forename: Katarzyna
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Gorzkowska-Pasik
authors.forename: Elżbieta
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Wiatr
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Burakowska
authors.forename: Urszula
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Nowicka
authors.forename: Jarosław
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kober
authors.forename: Przemysław
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Malong
authors.forename: Piotr
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Pasik
authors.forename: Krystyna
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Folcik
mesh_terms: D020065:Hepatopulmonary Syndrome / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D000860:Hypoxia / Q000209:etiology; D017563:Lung Diseases, Interstitial / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic; D012131:Respiratory Insufficiency / Q000209:etiology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed