Platypnea-orthodeoxia syndrome associated with patent foramen ovale and aortic ectasia

Echocardiography

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 114-117

  Kusunose, Kenya ^a   Yamada, Hirotsugu ^a,b   Todoroki, Takashi ^a   Nishio, Susumu ^b   Niki, Toshiyuki ^a   Yamaguchi, Koji ^a   Koshiba, Kunihiko ^a   Yagi, Shusuke ^a   Iwase, Takashi ^a   Soeki, Takeshi ^a   Wakatsuki, Tetsuzo ^a   Akaike, Masashi ^a   Kitagawa, Tetsuya ^a   Sata, Masataka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b TOKUSHIMA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Color Doppler transesophageal echocardiography; Congenital heart defects; Contrast microbubbles; Orthodeoxia; Patent foramen ovale

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA DISEASE; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTIC ECTASIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DYSPNEA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; PLATYPNEA ORTHODEOXIA SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AORTIC DISEASES; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; EDEMA, CARDIAC; FORAMEN OVALE, PATENT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 58149202524     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2008.00780.x     Document Type: Article

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