Symptomatic pleural effusion in adult liver transplant candidates: prevalence, disease severity and post-transplant mortality
Ilker Kolbas, Adem Tuncer, Emrah Sahin, Abuzer Dirican · 2025
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Description
Ilker Kolbas and three co-authors studied fluid on the lung in people waiting for a liver transplant, in a study published in two thousand twenty-five. This fluid, often called hepatic hydrothorax, builds up when liver disease is far advanced. The team reviewed all adults who had a first liver transplant at one large center between two thousand fifteen and two thousand twenty-two.
Of four hundred fifty-nine patients, about one in eight had fluid that caused symptoms and needed treatment. These patients had worse liver scores and more fluid in the belly. More of them died in the first month and first three months after surgery. But once liver score and other factors were counted, the lung fluid alone did not predict death. The authors say it should prompt careful care, not rule out a transplant.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Ilker Kolbas, Adem Tuncer, Emrah Sahin, Abuzer Dirican |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 36 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |