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- Title
Successful liver retransplantation for recurrent hepatopulmonary syndrome.
- Authors
Rajwal, S. R.; Davison, S. M.; Prasad, R.; Brownlee, K.; McClean, P.
- Abstract
HPS is defined as arterial hypoxemia because of pulmonary vasodilation as a result of cirrhotic or non-cirrhotic portal hypertension. This report describes a teenager with HPS because of primary sclerosing cholangitis/autoimmune hepatitis overlap syndrome requiring OLT. HPS resolved completely within three months of OLT, but recurred again at 12 months post-OLT following liver dysfunction secondary to a biliary stricture. She underwent a second OLT successfully and remains well two yr and three months post-second OLT. Recurrent HPS after OLT may occur because of graft dysfunction and as this novel case illustrates, retransplantation may lead to a successful outcome.
- Subjects
MEDICAL research; LIVER transplantation; HYPOXEMIA; PORTAL hypertension; CHRONIC active hepatitis
- Publication
Pediatric Transplantation, 2007, Vol 11, Issue 8, p927
- ISSN
1397-3142
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1399-3046.2007.00790.x