Platypnea-orthodeoxia syndrome related to right hemidiaphragmatic elevation and a ‘stretched’ patent foramen ovale

Katerina Sakagianni; Despina Evrenoglou; Dimitrios Mytas; Manolis Vavuranakis

doi:10.1136/bcr-2012-007735

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Platypnea-orthodeoxia syndrome related to right hemidiaphragmatic elevation and a ‘stretched’ patent foramen ovale

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Katerina Sakagianni Department of Intensive Care Unit, Sismanoglion General Hospital, Athens, Greece PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Despina Evrenoglou Department of Intensive Care Unit, Sismanoglion General Hospital, Athens, Greece PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Dimitrios Mytas Department of Cardiology, Sismanoglion General Hospital, Athens, Greece PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Manolis Vavuranakis First Department of Cardiology, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece PubMed articles Google scholar articles

Correspondence to Dr Dimitrios Mytas, dimitrismytas{at}gmail.com

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Sakagianni K, Evrenoglou D, Mytas D, et al

Platypnea-orthodeoxia syndrome related to right hemidiaphragmatic elevation and a ‘stretched’ patent foramen ovale

Case Reports 2012;2012:bcr-2012-007735.

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First published December 10, 2012.

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