Platypnoea syndrome caused by atrial septal aneurysm.
A patient with platypnoea after right pneumonectomy and radiotherapy is described. On transoesophageal contrast echocardiography and cardiac catheterization, an atrial septal aneurysm with interatrial right-to-left shunting was detected. Symptoms disappeared after surgical correction. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of a patient with a septal aneurysm and severe platypnoea.
Frans
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Dept of Medicine, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium.
Timmermans
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Herregods
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De Geest
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Daenen
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Delanote
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Decramer
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D000368:Aged; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization; D004417:Dyspnea / Q000209:etiology*; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D006322:Heart Aneurysm / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D006325:Heart Atria; D006346:Heart Septum; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000601:surgery; D011013:Pneumonectomy; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D011187:Posture / Q000502:physiology*