Transcatheter closure of a patent foramen ovale prior to a pneumonectomy to prevent platypnea syndrome.
An intracardiac shunt on an atrial level may be a cause of hypoxemia after lung surgery (platypnea-orthodeoxia syndrome). This syndrome may be successfully treated by percutaneous or surgical shunt closure. We present the case of preoperative transcatheter closure of a patent foramen ovale (PFO) for the prevention of possible platypnea after a forthcoming right pneumonectomy.
Pediatric Cardiology Unit, Meyer Children's Hospital, Rambam Medical Center, Haifa 31096, Israel. s_yalonetsky@rambam.health.gov.il
Sergey
S
Yalonetsky
Allon Ben
AB
Nun
Yitzhak
Y
Shwartz
Avraham
A
Lorber
D000328:Adult; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization / Q000379:methods*; D006344:Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D000860:Hypoxia / Q000517:prevention & control*; D008297:Male; D011013:Pneumonectomy; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000517:prevention & control*; D013577:Syndrome