[Pulmonary embolism and right diaphragmatic paralysis: "one train can hide another"].
The authors report the case of an 84 year old woman admitted for a mild pulmonary embolism associated with severe hypoxaemia. The association of a right diaphragmatic paralysis with renewed patency of a foramenovale and creation of a right-to-left shunt is probably an underestimated cause of refractory hypoxaemia.
Charbonnel
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Service des urgences et soins inten- sifs cardiologiques.
Ennezat
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Darchis
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Auffray
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Bauchart
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Aubert
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Godart
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Goldstein
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D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001794:Blood Pressure; D003964:Diaphragm; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D000860:Hypoxia / Q000503:physiopathology; D010243:Paralysis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic