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Septal rupture: effect of oxygen administration
G Hollander1, J Horowitz, A Greengart
1Maimonides Medical Center, Division of Cardiology, Brooklyn 11219.
Clinical Cardiology
|December 1, 1988
Abstract:
A patient with interventricular septal rupture as a complication of myocardial infarction was studied to determine whether varying the concentration of inspired oxygen would alter the magnitude of intracardiac shunt. A significant correlation was found showing that high concentration of inspired oxygen results in increased left to right shunting probably due to systemic vasoconstriction and pulmonary vasodilatation.