The diagnosis of HPS depends on establishing that impaired gas exchange in a patient with liver disease is due to pulmonary vascular dilatation. In most cases, the results of arterial blood gases and ...

Did Changes in Drug Reimbursement After the Medicare Modernization Act Affect Chemotherapy Prescribing? Tumor specimens from patients with known independent primary tumors and metastatic lesions were ...

Previously in the Journal, we reported on a 4-year-old boy with the hepatopulmonary syndrome, a condition characterized by intrapulmonary shunting due to dilatation of pulmonary vessels in the setting ...

The primary objective of any pharmaceutical preparation is to provide the desired drug concentration to the proper site in the body to promptly achieve the therapeutic effect (Hilleman & Banakar, 1992 ...