PFO and right-to-left shunting in patients with obstructive sleep apnea

Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 375-380

  Guchlerner, Marina ^a   Kardos, Peter ^b   Liss Koch, Eva ^b   Franke, Jennifer ^a   Wunderlich, Nina ^a   Bertog, Stefan ^a   Sievert, Horst ^a  

^a CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^b Klinik Maingau   (Germany)

Author keywords

Obstructive sleep apnea; Patent foramen ovale; Right to left shunt; Transcranial doppler

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RIGHT LEFT SHUNT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; PREVALENCE; RATING SCALE; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FORAMEN OVALE, PATENT; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PREVALENCE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 84866750344     PISSN: 15509389     EISSN: 15509397     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5664/jcsm.2026     Document Type: Article

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