Acquired right-to-left shunt with normal right heart pressures;Shunts intra-cardiaques droits-gauches acquis à pressions cardiaques droites normales

Revue des Maladies Respiratoires

Volumn 18, Issue 6 I, 2001, Pages 654-656

  Pontier, S ^a   Degano, B ^a   Escamilla, R ^a   Hermant, C ^a   Krempf, M ^a  

^a CHU PURPAN   (France)

Author keywords

Dyspnea; Intracardiac right to left shunting; Patent foramen ovale; Platypnea and orthodeoxia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BODY POSTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART RIGHT LEFT SHUNT; HEART VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; MALE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

AGED; FEMALE; HEART; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRESSURE;

EID: 0035688344     PISSN: 07618425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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