Publications by authors named "Hideki Shinano"

Reported here is the case of a 76-year-old male with gastric cancer. Distal gastrectomy was performed after his admission to our hospital. Histopathologically, the cancer was determined to be in the advanced stage.

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Here we present a case of hepatopulmonary syndrome (HPS) where spontaneous resolution of severe hypoxaemia occurred with the development of pulmonary hypertension over several years after the initial diagnosis of HPS. The pulmonary vascular responses to hypoxia examined before and after the spontaneous resolution of HPS confirmed that the pathogenesis of HPS could be functional and reversible in nature. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report demonstrating a remarkable change in the pulmonary vascular response to hypoxia before and after the spontaneous resolution of hypoxaemia in HPS.

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