Intracardiac shunting across a patent foramen ovale may exacerbate hypoxemia in high-altitude pulmonary edema.
Levine
B D
BD
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas.
Grayburn
P A
PA
Voyles
W F
WF
Greene
E R
ER
Roach
R C
RC
Hackett
P H
PH
D000328:Adult; D000532:Altitude Sickness / Q000097:blood / Q000503:physiopathology*; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D006344:Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / Q000097:blood / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D000860:Hypoxia / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D011654:Pulmonary Edema / Q000097:blood / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D012307:Risk Factors