A mystery featuring right-to-left shunting despite normal intracardiac pressure

Chest

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 998-1002

  Zanchetta, Mario ^a,c   Rigatelli, Gianluca ^a   Ho, Siew Yen ^b  

^a Cittadella General Hospital   (Italy)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Intracardiac shunts; Paradoxical embolism; Patent foramen ovale

Indexed keywords

DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DIVER; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART RIGHT LEFT SHUNT; HEART SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION; MIGRAINE AURA; PARADOXICAL EMBOLISM; PATHOGENESIS; PLATYPNEA ORTHODEOXIA SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRANSIENT GLOBAL AMNESIA;

EID: 23744437417     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.128.2.998     Document Type: Article

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