Patent foramen ovale in high-altitude pulmonary edema: A vicious cycle

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 433-434

  Cheng, Tsung O ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

High altitude pulmonary edema; Patent foramen ovale; Platypnea orthodeoxia

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; LUNG EDEMA; MIGRAINE; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; STROKE;

ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; BALLOON OCCLUSION; FEMALE; FORAMEN OVALE, PATENT; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY EDEMA; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 43049159137     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2007.01.122     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Allemann Y., Hutter D., Lipp E., et al. Patent foramen ovale and high-altitude pulmonary edema. JAMA 296 (2006) 2954-2958
2. Cheng T.O. That balloon atrial septostomy is associated with preoperative stroke in neonates with transposition of the great arteries is another powerful argument in favor of therapeutic closure of every patent foramen ovale. Am J Cardiol 98 (2006) 277-278
3. Levine B.D., Grayburn P.A., Voyles W.F., Greene E.R., Roach R.C., and Hackett P.H. Intracardiac shunting across a patent foramen ovale may exacerbate hypoxemia in high-altitude pulmonary edema. Ann Intern Med 114 (1991) 569-570
4. Cheng T.O. Paradoxical embolism: a diagnostic challenge and its detection during life. Circulation 53 (1976) 565-568
5. Cheng T.O. Paradoxical emboli after pulmonary embolus. Presse Med 24 (1995) 1049
6. Cheng T.O. Paradoxic embolism. Am Heart J 131 (1996) 1238
7. Cheng T.O. Paradoxical embolism: diagnosis and management. J Emerg Med 20 (2001) 416-417
8. Horton S.C., and Bunch T.J. Patent foramen ovale and stroke. Mayo Clin Proc 79 (2004) 79-88
9. Cheng T.O. Coronary embolism. Am Heart J 132 (1996) 1314-1315
10. Cheng T.O. Right-sided chest lead abnormalities on EKG in acute pulmonary embolism. J Natl Med Assoc 95 (2003) 862
11. Cheng T.O. Paradoxical coronary embolism - an alternative explanation for increased cardiac troponin in acute pulmonary embolism. Heart (2004). http://heart.bmjjournals.com/cgi/eletters/90/6/633#316 http://heart.bmjjournals.com/cgi/eletters/90/6/633#316. Accessed July 1, 2004.
12. Cheng T.O. Brugada syndrome vs pulmonary embolism vs paradoxical embolism. What are we to believe?. Int J Cardiol 94 (2004) 119
13. Cheng T.O. Is patent foramen ovale the culprit in women with migraine and cardiovascular disease?. Int J Cardiol 113 (2006) 442
14. Wilmhurst P.T., Pearson M.J., Walsh K.P., Morrison W.L., and Bryson P. Relationship between right-to-left shunts and cutaneous decompression illness. Clin Sci 100 (2001) 539-542
15. Cheng T.O. Reversible orthodeoxia. Ann Intern Med 116 (1992) 875
16. Cheng T.O. Platypnea-orthodeoxia due to interatrial right-to-left shunting. Acta Cardiol 49 (1994) 217
17. Cheng T.O. Platypnea-orthodeoxia syndrome: etiology, differential diagnosis, and management. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv 47 (1999) 64-66
18. Cheng T.O. Transcatheter closure of patent foramen ovale: a definitive treatment for platypnea-orthodeoxia. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv 51 (2000) 120
19. Cheng T.O. Mechanism of platypnea-orthodeoxia: what causes water to flow uphill?. Circulation 105 (2002) e47
20. Cheng T.O. Platypnea-orthodeoxia and blockpnea as two unrecognized or underdiagnosed causes of medically unexplained dyspnea. Chin Med J 117 (2004) 1116
21. Bookman I.D., and Dryer E.T. A case of platydeoxia?. N Engl J Med 354 (2006) 1759-1760
22. Johansson M.C., Eriksson P., Peker Y., Hedner J., Rastam L., and Lindblad U. The influence of patent foramen ovale on oxygen desaturation in obstructive sleep apnoea. Eur Respir J 29 (2007) 149-155
23. Cheng T.O. Patent foramen ovale and migraine. Am J Cardiol 98 (2006) 990-991
24. Cheng T.O. Percutaneous closure of patent foramen ovale is the procedure of choice for paradoxical embolism. Circulation 108 (2003) e126
25. Cheng T.O. Platypnea-orthodeoxia syndrome: etiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis and management. Chin Circulation J 21 Suppl 339 (2006) 419
26. Cheng T.O. The proper conduct of Valsalva maneuver in the detection of PFO. J Am Coll Cardiol 45 (2005) 1145-1146