Platypnea-orthodeoxia after fibrotic evolution of SARS-CoV-2 interstitial pneumonia. A case report

Platypnea-orthodeoxia syndrome (POS) is a clinical entity characterized by positional dyspnoea (platypnea) and arterial desaturation (orthodeoxia) that occurs when sitting or standing up and usually resolves by lying down. POS may result from some cardiopulmonary disorders or from other miscellaneou...

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Autores principales: Longo, Chiara, Ruffini, Livia, Zanoni, Nicola, Longo, Francesco, Accogli, Rocco, Graziani, Tiziano, Chetta, Alfredo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Mattioli 1885 2020
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Correspondence / Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7716968/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32921749
http://dx.doi.org/10.23750/abm.v91i3.10386
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Sumario:Platypnea-orthodeoxia syndrome (POS) is a clinical entity characterized by positional dyspnoea (platypnea) and arterial desaturation (orthodeoxia) that occurs when sitting or standing up and usually resolves by lying down. POS may result from some cardiopulmonary disorders or from other miscellaneous aetiologies. We report a case of POS in a patient after fibrotic evolution of SARS-CoV-2 interstitial pneumonia associated with pulmonary embolism. The patient did not have any evidence of an intracardiac/intrapulmonary shunt.

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