Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Park, Sang C.
• Beerman, Lee B.
• Gartner, J.Carlton
• Zitelli, Basil J.
• Malatack, J.Jeffrey
• Fricker, Frederick J.
• Fischer, Donald R.
• Mathews, Robert A.
• Neches, William H.
• Zuberbuhler, James R.

Titel

Echocardiographic findings before and after liver transplantation

Ist Teil von

• The American journal of cardiology, 1985-05, Vol.55 (11), p.1373-1378

Ort / Verlag

United States: Elsevier Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

1985

Quelle

Elsevier Journal Backfiles on ScienceDirect (DFG Nationallizenzen)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Echocardiographic studies were performed in 73 patients with various types of chronic liver disease. They were 0.5 to 19 years old (mean 5). Thirteen patients underwent follow-up echocardiography 1 to 13 months (mean 6) after liver transplantation. Preoperatively 60 patients (82%) showed evidence of high cardiac output (cardiac index greater than 4 liters/min/m 2); these patients manifested increased left ventricular (LV) and left atrial dimensions and a thickened LV posterior wall. Transvenous contrast echocardiographic study confirmed the presence of intrapulmonary arteriovenous shunting in 4 patients. Studies after liver transplantation revealed a reduced LV end-diastolic dimension in 12 patients. Cardiac index was reduced a mean of 35% after transplantation (p < 0.001). This study suggests that liver transplantation improves common hemodynamic abnormalities in chronic liver disease.