Platypnea-Orthodeoxia Syndrome: An Overlooked Cause of Hypoxemia

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¹ Division of Cardiology, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California. Electronic address: jtobis@mednet.ucla.edu.
² Loma Linda University Health, Loma Linda, California.

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Jonathan Marvin Tobis et al. JACC Cardiovasc Interv. 2016.

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. 2016 Sep 26;9(18):1939-40.

doi: 10.1016/j.jcin.2016.08.002.

¹ Division of Cardiology, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California. Electronic address: jtobis@mednet.ucla.edu.
² Loma Linda University Health, Loma Linda, California.

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Keywords: hypoxemia; left-to-right shunt; patent foramen ovale; platypnea-orthodeoxia syndrome.

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