Combined Interatrial and Intrapulmonary Shunting in Orthodeoxia Detected by Transesophageal Echocardiography
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Hemodynamic Precision in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit using Targeted Neonatal Echocardiography
Published on: January 27, 2023
Abhash C. Thakur1, Navin C. Nanda, Sanjay Malhotra
1University of Alabama at Birmingham, Heart Station SW/S102, Birmingham, AL 35233.
Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.)
|February 15, 2001
Abstract:
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.
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