Platypnea-orthodeoxia syndrome as a presentation of hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia

Circulation

Volumn 126, Issue 22, 2012, Pages 2645-2647

  Kumar, Nilay ^a   Kraemer, Ryan R ^a   Murthy, Rajini K ^a   Hartig, Jason R ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEVOFLOXACIN;

ADULT; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; BLOOD OXYGEN TENSION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CASE REPORT; CLUBBING FINGERS; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DYSPNEA; EPISTAXIS; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INSPIRATORY CAPACITY; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG AUSCULTATION; MEDICAL HISTORY; NOTE; OXYGEN SATURATION; PLATYPNEA ORTHODEOXIA SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; RECURRENT DISEASE; RENDU OSLER WEBER DISEASE; SMOKING; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VEIN DILATATION;

ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY CIRCULATION; SEPTAL OCCLUDER DEVICE; TELANGIECTASIA, HEREDITARY HEMORRHAGIC;

EID: 84870231106     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.112.125047     Document Type: Note

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