Non-cirrhotic portal hypertension with hypoxaemia.
Open Access
- 1 January 1988
- Vol. 29 (1) , 129-131
- https://doi.org/10.1136/gut.29.1.129
Abstract
Hypoxaemia and digital clubbing are rare but well recognised associations of hepatic cirrhosis with portal hypertension. We report the first European patient with idiopathic non-cirrhotic portal hypertension complicated by these features. Pulmonary physiological studies show the hypoxaemia to be the result of anatomical and physiological intrapulmonary shunting.Keywords
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