Screening for portopulmonary hypertension with transthoracic echocardiography: implications for early mortality associated with liver transplantation

Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2009 Aug 15;180(4):378; author reply 378-9. doi: 10.1164/ajrccm.180.4.378.
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Publication types

  • Letter
  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Cardiac Catheterization
  • Echocardiography*
  • Humans
  • Hypertension, Portal / diagnostic imaging*
  • Hypertension, Portal / mortality
  • Hypertension, Pulmonary / diagnostic imaging*
  • Hypertension, Pulmonary / mortality
  • Kaplan-Meier Estimate
  • Liver Transplantation*
  • Mass Screening*
  • Retrospective Studies
  • Tricuspid Valve Insufficiency / diagnostic imaging
  • Tricuspid Valve Insufficiency / mortality