Platypnea and orthodeoxia associated with Pneumocystis jiroveci and Cytomegalovirus pneumonia: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Platypnea-orthodeoxia is an uncommon syndrome characterized by dyspnea and deoxygenation accompanying a change to a sitting or standing posture from a recumbent position. It is usually related to interatrial communications, although several other disorders associated with platypnea-ort...

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Autores principales: Katsoulis, Konstantinos, Minasidis, Ilias, Vainas, Andreas, Bikas, Christoforos, Kontakiotis, Theodoros, Vakianis, Pantelis
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Case report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2803842/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20062748
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-3-9319

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2803842/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20062748
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-3-9319

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