Right to left shunt through a patent foramen ovale without pulmonary hypertension.
This article describes a patient presenting with dyspnea and platypnea and whose only clinical finding was presence of patent foramen ovale with a right to left shunt, without pulmonary hypertension, characteristic of the rare Platypnea-Orthodeoxya Syndrome, with very interesting pathophysiological findings and with therapeutic alternatives not yet defined.
Lisboa
Thiago Costa
TC
Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. tlisboa@hotmail.com
Costa
Clarice Daniele Oliveira
CD
Furian
Thiago Quedi
TQ
Vieira
Silvia Regina Rios
SR
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