Right-to-left shunt through patent foramen ovale complicating right ventricular infarction. Successful percutaneous catheter closure.
A patient with right ventricular infarction and severe hypoxemia secondary to right-to-left shunting through a patent foramen ovale is presented. A balloon tip catheter was positioned in the left atrium and retracted against the atrial septum and the hypoxemia resolved.
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LDS Hospital, Salt Lake City.
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D000368:Aged; D002404:Catheterization; D006344:Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / Q000150:complications* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D000860:Hypoxia / Q000209:etiology; D008297:Male; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000209:etiology*