1. Pulmonary Dysfunction in Patients with Liver Cirrhosis
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Ghada Moustafa, Amr Mohamed Zaghloul, Khaled Alkhayat, and Asmaa Abd Elazeem
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Cirrhosis ,business.industry ,05 social sciences ,General Medicine ,Disease ,Hypoxia (medical) ,Pulmonary Dysfunction ,Chronic liver disease ,medicine.disease ,Gastroenterology ,respiratory tract diseases ,0506 political science ,Hypoxemia ,Pulmonary function testing ,Surgery ,Internal medicine ,0502 economics and business ,050602 political science & public administration ,medicine ,In patient ,medicine.symptom ,business ,050203 business & management - Abstract
Pulmonary dysfunction is a common feature in patients with long standing liver affection and up to 70% of patients with liver cirrhosis are complaining of dyspnea. Hypoxia has been seen in approximately one third of patients with chronic hepatic disease and the development of hypoxemia in patients with chronic liver disease may change the treatment.
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- 2017
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