Hepatopulmonary syndrome: Angiography and therapeutic embolization

30 April 2003

journal article
case report
Published by Elsevier BV in Clinical Imaging

Vol. 27 (2), 97-100
https://doi.org/10.1016/s0899-7071(02)00511-9

Abstract

We report a case where an embolization therapy was successfully performed for diffusely dilated pulmonary vessels in a patient with hepatopulmonary syndrome (HPS) as a palliative treatment before liver transplantation. To our knowledge, this therapeutic approach has been tried only for arteriovenous malformation type HPS, and not for diffuse dilatation [Chest 91 (1987) 920].

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