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Right-to-left shunt through patent foramen ovale complicating right ventricular infarction. Successful percutaneous
1LDS Hospital, Salt Lake City.
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|November 1, 1988
Abstract:
A patient with right ventricular infarction and severe hypoxemia secondary to right-to-left shunting through a patent foramen ovale is presented. A balloon tip catheter was positioned in the left atrium and retracted against the atrial septum and the hypoxemia resolved.