Dual mechanism platypnea-orthodeoxia syndrome from severe right coronary artery stenosis and a patent foramen ovale

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 440-444

  Khung, Keong Yeo ^a   Rogers, Jason H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial septal defects; Percutaneous coronary intervention; Transcatheter intervention

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY STENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; OXIMETRY; PLATYPNEA ORTHODEOXIA SYNDROME; SHUNTING; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HEART SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HOSPITALIZATION; LUNG WEDGE PRESSURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNDROME;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANOXEMIA; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTURE; PULMONARY WEDGE PRESSURE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SYNDROME; VENTRICULAR PRESSURE;

EID: 35848943894     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: 1522726X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ccd.21107     Document Type: Article

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