[Treatment of refractory hypoxemia due to right-to-left interatrial shunt complicating right ventricular infarction: successful short-term percutaneous catheter closure of the patent foramen ovale].
Refractory hypoxemia as a complication of right ventricular infarction is rare. A 74-year-old man developed persistent hypoxemia due to right-to-left interatrial shunting through a patent foramen ovale during the acute phase of right ventricular infarction. Short-term percutaneous transvenous closure of the patent foramen ovale with a large balloon occlusion catheter was life-saving.
D000368:Aged; D002404:Catheterization; D015150:Echocardiography, Doppler; D006344:Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*; D006352:Heart Ventricles; D006801:Humans; D000860:Hypoxia / Q000209:etiology*; D008297:Male; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000150:complications*