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Refractory hypoxaemia after pneumonectomy: diagnosis by transoesophageal echocardiography
1Department of Cardiology, Royal Brompton National Heart and Lung Hospital, London.
Thorax
|January 1, 1992
Abstract:
A patient with normal oxygenation before operation became very breathless and hypoxaemic after a right pneumonectomy. Transoesophageal echocardiography showed right to left interatrial shunting due to a patent foramen ovale. Transoesophageal echocardiography should be included in the assessment of patients who became inappropriately dyspnoeic after pneumonectomy.