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Platypnoea syndrome caused by atrial septal aneurysm
E Frans1, C Timmermans, M C Herregods
1Dept of Medicine, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium.
The European Respiratory Journal
|November 1, 1994
Abstract:
A patient with platypnoea after right pneumonectomy and radiotherapy is described. On transoesophageal contrast echocardiography and cardiac catheterization, an atrial septal aneurysm with interatrial right-to-left shunting was detected. Symptoms disappeared after surgical correction. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of a patient with a septal aneurysm and severe platypnoea.