101. Right-to-left Shunt Through Patent Foramen Ovale Complicating Right Ventricular Infarction
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Steven K. Krueger and Donald L Lappe
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Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Percutaneous ,Right-to-left shunt ,Foramen secundum ,macromolecular substances ,Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine ,Balloon ,Hypoxemia ,medicine.artery ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,cardiovascular diseases ,Myocardial infarction ,business.industry ,digestive, oral, and skin physiology ,medicine.disease ,respiratory tract diseases ,Surgery ,Catheter ,cardiovascular system ,Patent foramen ovale ,Cardiology ,medicine.symptom ,Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine ,business - Abstract
A patient with right ventricular infarction and severe hypoxemia secondary to right-to-left shunting through a patent foramen ovale is presented. A balloon tip catheter was positioned in the left atrium and retracted against the atrial septum and the hypoxemia resolved.
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- 1988
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