Orthodeoxia without Platypnea from Interatrial Defect Associated with Persistent Left Superior Vena cava in the Absence of Pulmonary Hypertension

Orthodeoxia-platypnea is a rare but increasingly recognized syndrome of upright hypoxemia usually associated to breathlessness relieved by recumbency. We report the case of isolated orthodeoxia discovered in a military recruit who referred only fatigability as the clinical symptom after a forced mar...

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Veröffentlicht in:Respiration 2003-03, Vol.70 (2), p.207-210
Hauptverfasser: Maniscalco, Mauro, Dialetto, Giovanni, Tufano, Giovanni, Romano, Annamaria, Sofia, Matteo
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