The diagnosis of HPS depends on establishing that impaired gas exchange in a patient with liver disease is due to pulmonary vascular dilatation. In most cases, the results of arterial blood gases and ...

Did Changes in Drug Reimbursement After the Medicare Modernization Act Affect Chemotherapy Prescribing? Tumor specimens from patients with known independent primary tumors and metastatic lesions were ...

The characteristics of hepatopulmonary syndrome include an oxygen saturation < 80%, an increased alveolar-arterial gradient (> 15 mm Hg) while breathing room air, portal hypertension with or without ...

Persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn (PPHN) is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in neonates (1,2). Meconium aspiration syndrome is the single most common cause of PPHN in ...

Recently, on the basis of a case series involving six patients, Sykes et al. 1 described the TEMPI syndrome, a novel multisystem disease defined by telangiectasias, erythrocytosis with elevated ...