Platypnea Orthodeoxia for Those Who do Better Lying Low

Platypnea orthodeoxia syndrome (POS) can be a confounding disease. Patients with POS may have already had an extensive and unrevealing evaluation for hypoxia. POS is the worsening of hypoxia when upright compared to supine. The underlying mechanism is a right to left shunt. While there are various c...

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Autores principales: DeBoer, Rebecca, Mene-Afejuku, Tuoyo, Sundhu, Murtaza, Fraga, Julian D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Greater Baltimore Medical Center 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9529644/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36262486
http://dx.doi.org/10.55729/2000-9666.1096
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author DeBoer, Rebecca
Mene-Afejuku, Tuoyo
Sundhu, Murtaza
Fraga, Julian D.
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description Platypnea orthodeoxia syndrome (POS) can be a confounding disease. Patients with POS may have already had an extensive and unrevealing evaluation for hypoxia. POS is the worsening of hypoxia when upright compared to supine. The underlying mechanism is a right to left shunt. While there are various causes of this, we focus on intracardiac shunt. The most common of these is patent foramen ovale (PFO). Once this is identified, closure of the PFO can lead to resolution of hypoxia.
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spelling pubmed-95296442022-10-18 Platypnea Orthodeoxia for Those Who do Better Lying Low DeBoer, Rebecca Mene-Afejuku, Tuoyo Sundhu, Murtaza Fraga, Julian D. J Community Hosp Intern Med Perspect Case Report Platypnea orthodeoxia syndrome (POS) can be a confounding disease. Patients with POS may have already had an extensive and unrevealing evaluation for hypoxia. POS is the worsening of hypoxia when upright compared to supine. The underlying mechanism is a right to left shunt. While there are various causes of this, we focus on intracardiac shunt. The most common of these is patent foramen ovale (PFO). Once this is identified, closure of the PFO can lead to resolution of hypoxia. Greater Baltimore Medical Center 2022-09-09 /pmc/articles/PMC9529644/ /pubmed/36262486 http://dx.doi.org/10.55729/2000-9666.1096 Text en © 2022 Greater Baltimore Medical Center https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) ).
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title_full Platypnea Orthodeoxia for Those Who do Better Lying Low
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36262486
http://dx.doi.org/10.55729/2000-9666.1096
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