Platypnea-orthodeoxia due to fat embolism

Autor:	Nikolaos S. Salemis, Christos Gakis, Stavros Aloizos, Stavros Gourgiotis
Rok vydání:	2011
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty business.industry Right femur medicine.disease Article Hypoxemia Surgery Dyspnea Platypnea-orthodeoxia Fat embolism Rare case medicine medicine.symptom business Platypnea orthodeoxia
Zdroj:	International Journal of Surgery Case Reports. 2:147-149
ISSN:	2210-2612
DOI:	10.1016/j.ijscr.2011.02.015
Popis:	Platypnea-orthodeoxia is an uncommon syndrome that is characterized by dyspnea relieved by recumbency and deoxygenation following a change from a recumbent to an upright posture. We herein describe a case of platypnea-orthodeoxia in a 75-year-old man after a surgical restoration of a bitrochanteric fracture of his right femur. However, in this extremely rare case, none of the current known anatomical or functional conditions which can cause platypnea-orthodeoxia had been diagnosed. We strongly believe that this syndrome could be also the result of fat embolism.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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