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Combined Interatrial and Intrapulmonary Shunting in Orthodeoxia Detected by Transesophageal Echocardiography
Author(s) -
THAKUR ABHASH C,
NANDA NAVIN C.,
MALHOTRA SANJAY,
MARTIN MICHELE B. ST.,
JAMIL FARRUKH,
AGRAWAL DIPAK,
MAHESHWARI SANJAY,
ABRAMS GARY A.,
PATEL BIPIN
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
echocardiography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.404
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1540-8175
pISSN - 0742-2822
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8175.1998.tb00584.x
Subject(s) - interatrial septum , shunting , medicine , cardiology , radiology , left atrium , atrial fibrillation
Contrast transesophageal echocardiography was found useful in diagnosing combined interatrial and intrapulmonary right‐to‐left shunts in a patient presenting with orthodeoxia. This was done by separately examining the pulmonary veins and the interatrial septum during intravenous normal saline injections.