Hypoxemia in a Patient With Mone Cirrhosis

There's so many potential causes for dyspnea and a cirrhotic, I find it helpful to organize the potential etiologies into big buckets. My big buckets include airway, parenchyma, diaphragm, vascular, and non-pulmonary causes of dyspnea. For my airway category, common causes of Dyspnea in patients with chronic liver disease would include asthma and COPD. One randomized control trial that specifically compared the incidence of COPD in patients with and without liver disease found an odds ratio of 2.1 for patients with liver disease.