Open AccessExercise Capacity Impairment Can Predict Postoperative Pulmonary Complications after Liver Transplantation
Author(s) -
Clarissa Bentes de Araújo Magalhães,
Ingrid Correia Nogueira,
Liégina Silveira Marinho,
Elizabeth De Francesco Daher,
José Huygens Parente Garcia,
Cyntia Ferreira Gomes Viana,
Pedro Felipe Carvalhedo de Bruin,
Eanes Delgado Barros Pereira
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
respiration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.264
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1423-0356
pISSN - 0025-7931
DOI - 10.1159/000479008
Subject(s) - medicine , spirometry , odds ratio , incidence (geometry) , prospective cohort study , liver transplantation , univariate analysis , vital capacity , cardiology , surgery , anesthesia , transplantation , lung , multivariate analysis , lung function , diffusing capacity , physics , asthma , optics
Postoperative respiratory complications (PRCs) are common after liver transplantation (LT) and contribute significantly to the related morbidity and mortality.