Refractory hypoxaemia after pneumonectomy: diagnosis by transoesophageal echocardiography.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
A patient with normal oxygenation before operation became very breathless and hypoxaemic after a right pneumonectomy. Transoesophageal echocardiography showed right to left interatrial shunting due to a patent foramen ovale. Transoesophageal echocardiography should be included in the assessment of patients who became inappropriately dyspnoeic after pneumonectomy.
Medical subject headings
- Dyspnea
- Echocardiography
- Heart Septal Defects, Atrial
- Hypoxia
- Pneumonectomy
- Postoperative Complications