Hypoxemia secondary to right-to-left interatrial shunt through a patent foramen ovale in a patient with an elevated right hemidiaphragm

Respiratory Care

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 462-465

  Perkins, Linda A ^a,b   Costa, Steven M ^a,c   Boethel, Carl D ^a,c   Lawrence, Mark E ^a,c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c SCOTT AND WHITE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac shunt; Diaphragm paralysis; Dyspnea; Patent foramen ovale; Refractory hypox emia; Septal occlusion device

Indexed keywords

D DIMER;

AGED; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD OXYGEN TENSION; CASE REPORT; CAVA VEIN; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART RIGHT LEFT SHUNT; HEMIDIAPHRAGM; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG RESECTION; OXYGEN SATURATION; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE GRADIENT; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANOXIA; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DIAPHRAGM; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM;

AGED; ANOXIA; CORONARY CIRCULATION; DIAPHRAGM; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FORAMEN OVALE, PATENT; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS;

EID: 48049089449     PISSN: 00201324     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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