DOUBLE WHAMMY: IATROGENIC ATRIAL SEPTAL DEFECT AND AN UNRECOGNIZED PATENT FORAMEN OVALE CAUSING CHRONIC HYPOXEMIC RESPIRATORY FAILURE

Autor: Daniel Z. Fisher, Amartya Kundu, Abdalla Hassan, Mohamed Ahmed, Dennis A. Tighe
Rok vydání: 2019
Předmět:
Zdroj: Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 73:2738
ISSN: 0735-1097
DOI: 10.1016/s0735-1097(19)33344-3
Popis: Hypoxemic respiratory failure (HRF) due to iatrogenic transseptal puncture-induced intra-cardiac shunting in the presence of patent foramen oval (PFO) is uncommon and challenging to diagnose. A 65 year-old female with 2 atrial fibrillation (AF) ablations history presented multiple times with HRF
Databáze: OpenAIRE