Dyspnoea and hypoxaemia after lung surgery: The role of interatrial right-to-left shunt

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 174-181

  Marini, C ^a,b   Miniati, M ^d   Ambrosino, N ^c   Formichi, B ^a   Tonelli, L ^a   Di Ricco, G ^a   Michelassi, C ^a   Giusti, S ^e   Spadoni, I ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PISA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^e G PASQUINUCCI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Heart septal defect; Lung surgery; Postural hypoxaemia

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; BREATHING MECHANICS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART FORAMEN OVALE; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART RIGHT LEFT SHUNT; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; LUNG GAS EXCHANGE; LUNG LOBECTOMY; LUNG RESECTION; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; LUNG SURGERY; MALE; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SITTING; SUPINE POSITION; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOTOMY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ANOXEMIA; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREVALENCE; PULMONARY GAS EXCHANGE; PULMONARY SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 33845491254     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.06.00006405     Document Type: Article

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