Patent Foramen Ovale With Platypnea – Orthodeoxia Syndrome: A Case Report

Platypnea-orthodeoxia syndrome (POS) is an extraordinary medical condition characterized by positional dyspnea (platypnea) and arterial desaturation or hypoxemia (orthodeoxia) in the setting of an upright position. The difficulty breathing is alleviated upon lying down. It is the opposite of orthopn...

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Autores principales: Mirwais, Sabawoon, Mirwais, Maiwand, Altaf, Alveena, Collins, Jennifer
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Cardiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7667613/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33209519
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10958
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author Mirwais, Sabawoon
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Altaf, Alveena
Collins, Jennifer
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description Platypnea-orthodeoxia syndrome (POS) is an extraordinary medical condition characterized by positional dyspnea (platypnea) and arterial desaturation or hypoxemia (orthodeoxia) in the setting of an upright position. The difficulty breathing is alleviated upon lying down. It is the opposite of orthopnea and is manifested by a decrease in oxygen saturation when changing from supine to an orthostatic position. POS can have an intracardiac or an extracardiac etiology. Herein we report a case of an 87-year-old man presenting with acute on chronic dyspnea who showed promising improvement in oxygen saturation after patent foramen ovale (PFO) closure.
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spelling pubmed-76676132020-11-17 Patent Foramen Ovale With Platypnea – Orthodeoxia Syndrome: A Case Report Mirwais, Sabawoon Mirwais, Maiwand Altaf, Alveena Collins, Jennifer Cureus Cardiology Platypnea-orthodeoxia syndrome (POS) is an extraordinary medical condition characterized by positional dyspnea (platypnea) and arterial desaturation or hypoxemia (orthodeoxia) in the setting of an upright position. The difficulty breathing is alleviated upon lying down. It is the opposite of orthopnea and is manifested by a decrease in oxygen saturation when changing from supine to an orthostatic position. POS can have an intracardiac or an extracardiac etiology. Herein we report a case of an 87-year-old man presenting with acute on chronic dyspnea who showed promising improvement in oxygen saturation after patent foramen ovale (PFO) closure. Cureus 2020-10-15 /pmc/articles/PMC7667613/ /pubmed/33209519 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10958 Text en Copyright © 2020, Mirwais et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Patent Foramen Ovale With Platypnea – Orthodeoxia Syndrome: A Case Report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7667613/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10958
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