Platypnea-orthodeoxia syndrome: A diagnostic challenge

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 102, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1046-1048

  Desouza, Kavit A ^e   Saraswat, Shantanu ^a,b,c,d   Desouza, Shilpa A ^a,b,c,d   Rajaram, Venkataraman ^a,b,c,d   Reddy, Pratap C ^a,b,c,d   Mosley, Lawrence ^a,b,c,d   Tandon, Neeraj ^a,b,c,d  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^d OVERTON BROOKS VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e Louisiana State University School of Medicine Shreveport   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast echocardiography; Hepatopulmonary syndrome; Orthodeoxia; Patent foramen ovale; Platypnea

Indexed keywords

MACROSALB TC 99M; TECHNETIUM 99M;

AGED; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; DEOXYGENATION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DYSPNEA; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; OXYGEN BREATHING; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; PLATYPNEA ORTHODEOXIA SYNDROME; PRESSURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHUNTING; SPIROGRAPHY; STANDING; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FATAL OUTCOME; FORAMEN OVALE, PATENT; HUMANS; MALE; OXIMETRY; OXYGEN; POSTURE; SERUM ALBUMIN, RADIO-IODINATED; SYNDROME;

EID: 70349835767     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SMJ.0b013e3181b35f0f     Document Type: Article

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