Intermittent hypoxaemia without orthodeoxia due to right-to-left shunting related to an elongated aorta

Respirology

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 291-293

  Young, Iven H ^a  

^a ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Elongated aorta; Hypoxaemia; Patent foramen ovale; Shunt

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; OXYGEN;

AGED; AORTA ANOMALY; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; BODY POSTURE; CASE REPORT; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART RIGHT LEFT SHUNT; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG VENTILATION PERFUSION RATIO; ORAL CONTRACEPTION; OXYGEN THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; ANOXEMIA; AORTIC DISEASES; CORONARY CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HUMANS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032829294     PISSN: 13237799     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1843.1999.00193.x     Document Type: Article

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