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Severe hypoxemia in a case of midgut carcinoid tumor
R Robert1, C Matuchansky, F Picker
1Service de Réanimation Médicale, Hôpital Jean Bernard, Poitiers, France.
Intensive Care Medicine
|January 1, 1989
Abstract:
A 33-year-old woman treated for carcinoid tumor developed severe hypoxaemia. This hypoxaemia may have been related to an extracardiac right-to-left shunt. The pathogenic role of vasoactive agents is discussed and comparisons made with cirrhosis-associated hypoxaemia.