Jean-François David Cadranel, Isabelle Ollivier-Hourmand, Jacques Cadranel, Thierry Thevenot, Honoré Zougmore, Eric Nguyen-Khac, Christophe Bureau, Manon Allaire, Jean-Baptiste Nousbaum, Véronique Loustaud-Ratti, Xavier Causse, Philippe Sogni, Bertrand Hanslik, Marc Bourliere, Jean-Marie Peron, Nathalie Ganne-Carrie, Thong Dao, Dominique Thabut, Bernard Maitre, Nabil Debzi, Ryad Smadhi, Roger Sombie, Raimi Kpossou, Olivier Nouel, Julien Bissonnette, Isaac Ruiz, Mourad Medmoun, Sergio Negrin Dastis, Pierre Deltenre, Florent Artru, Chantal Raherison, Laure Elkrief, Tristan Lemagoarou
BACKGROUND: The Hepatic hydrothorax is a pleural effusion related to portal hypertension; its diagnosis and therapeutic management may be difficult. The aims of this article are which follows: To gather the practices of hepatogastroenterologists or pulmonologists practitioners regarding the diagnosis and management of the hepatic hydrothorax. METHODS: Practitioners from 13 French- speaking countries were invited to answer an online questionnaire on the hepatic hydrothorax diagnosis and its management...
September 12, 2023: BMC Gastroenterology