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Platypnea Orthodeoxia Syndrome Secondary to Intracardiac Shunt Following Orthotopic Liver Transplantation

Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports, 2020
Platypnea orthodeoxia syndrome (POS) occurs when an upright position results in acute-onset hypoxemia and is relieved with recumbency. POS can be due to intracardiac shunting, intrapulmonary shunting, ventilation-perfusion mismatch, or a combination of ...
Sophia R. Larson MD, Philip Vutien MD, Zachary L. Steinberg MD   +2 more
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Prenatal ultrasonographic characteristics and prognosis of isolated redundant foramen ovale flap

Gynecology and Obstetrics Clinical Medicine, 2022
Objective: To analyze the prenatal ultrasonographic characteristics and prognosis of the isolated redundant foramen ovale flap (RFOF). Methods: From January 2014 to December 2021, we collected data on fetal echocardiography analyses and perinatal ...
Yuntao Li, Qiuyan Pei, Zhenjuan Yang, Yani Yan, Xiaowei Xue   +4 more
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Critical congenital heart disease screening by pulse oximetry in a neonatal intensive care unit. [PDF]

, 2014
ObjectiveCritical congenital heart disease (CCHD) screening is effective in asymptomatic late preterm and term newborn infants with a low false-positive rate (0.035%).
Carrion, V, Lakshminrusimha, S, Manja, V, Mathew, B   +3 more
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Giant aneurysm of the atrial septum associated with premature closure of foramen ovale

Cardiovascular Ultrasound, 2005
Premature closure or restriction of foramen ovale (PCFO) is a rare congenital anomaly that can lead to a wide spectrum of cardiac malformations. This spectrum of secondary malformations appears to depend on the gestational timing of closure of the ...
Romaguera Rita L, Chrysostomou Constantinos, Rodriguez Maria M   +2 more
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Paradoxical Embolism After a Traffic Accident: A Rare Case of Thrombus Entrapped in a Patent Foramen Ovale

İstanbul Medical Journal, 2021
Paradoxical embolism is the passage of a thrombus formed in the venous system through shunts in the lung or heart into the systemic circulation. The most common intracardiac shunt is a patent foramen ovale (PFO). Since the transition of a thrombus formed
Şerif Ahmet Kandemir, Yakup Alsancak, Ahmet Seyfeddin Gürbüz, Mehmet Akif Düzenli   +3 more
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Endocardial fibroelastosis [PDF]

, 1967
This is an article delivered at a meeting of the British Medical Association (Malta Branch) on the 7th March 1967. During the eleven-year period 1955-66 eight cases of endocardial fibroelastosis were diagnosed or confirmed at autopsy.
Captur, Victor, Grech, J.L., Pace, Joseph L.   +2 more
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Platypnea-orthodeoxia due to osteoporosis and severe kyphosis: a rare cause for dyspnea and hypoxemia

Heart International, 2011
Platypnea orthodeoxia is a rare disorder characterised by dyspnea and arterial desaturation, exacerbated by the upright position and relieved when the subject is recumbent.
Gerian C. Groenefeld, Claudius Teupe
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Evaluation of critical congenital heart defects screening using pulse oximetry in the neonatal intensive care unit. [PDF]

, 2017
ObjectiveTo evaluate the implementation of early screening for critical congenital heart defects (CCHDs) in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and potential exclusion of sub-populations from universal screening.Study designProspective evaluation of ...
Allen, D, Assing, E, Axelrod, R, Blau, J, Chandra, S, Cohen, M, Fofah, O, Garg, LF, Giuliano, M, Govindaswami, B, Grazel, R, Hassinger, D, Hudome, S, Jegatheesan, P, Koppel, R, Kumar, P, Lakshminrusimha, S, Lohr, J, McClure, D, Spillane, N, Van Naarden Braun, K   +20 more
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Platypnea-Orthodeoxia Syndrome With Normal Right Heart Pressures in an Octogenarian

JACC: Case Reports, 2020
We describe a case of platypnea-orthodeoxia syndrome in an 88-year-old man who presented with progressive dyspnea. Right-to-left shunting through a patent foramen ovale (PFO) was seen in the setting of normal right-sided heart pressures.
Marcin Kuzma, MD, Jessie Bowers, MD, Michael Farbaniec, MD   +2 more
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Patent foramen ovale and thromboembolic complications [PDF]

, 2010
The foramen ovale, an atrial septal defect which is essential in the fetal circulation, remains patent through adulthood in approximately 25% of the general population and so it represents the most common persistent abnormality of fetal origin.
Barbaro, G, Fattouch, K, Fazio, G, Ferrara, F, Ferro, G, Novo, G, Novo, S   +6 more
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