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Patent foramen ovale presenting with platypnoea-orthodeoxia syndrome and stroke after multi-organ resection

Platypnoea-orthodeoxia syndrome (POS) is defined by oxygen desaturation and dyspnoea in upright position that improves by lying down. It results from a right to left shunt at the intracardiac or intrapulmonary level. A 53-year-old ovarian cancer patient presented with POS that was refractory to oxyg...

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Autores principales: Elenizi, Khaled, Alharthi, Rasha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7868231/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33542004
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2020-236784