Platypnea-orthodeoxia syndrome combined with multiple congenital heart anomalies

Internal Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 453-457

  Nagayoshi, Yasuhiro ^a   Toyama, Kensuke ^a   Kawano, Hiroaki ^a   Misumi, Ikuo ^a   Miyamoto, Shinzo ^a   Kojima, Sunao ^a   Sakamoto, Tomohiro ^a   Yoshimura, Michihiro ^a   Ogawa, Hisao ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atrial septal aneurysm; Intracardiac shunts; Patent foramen ovale; Platypnea; Transesophageal echocardiography; Unroofed coronary sinus

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN; WARFARIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; BREATHING DISORDER; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CORONARY SINUS; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HEART ANEURYSM; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART RIGHT LEFT SHUNT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; HYPOXIA; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; LUNG VEIN DRAINAGE ANOMALY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARALYSIS; PLATYPNEA ORTHODEOXIA SYNDROME; STANDING; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; AGED; ANOXEMIA; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VESSEL ANOMALIES; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART ANEURYSM; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTURE; SYNDROME;

EID: 21244498588     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.44.453     Document Type: Article

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