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Hypoxemia after blunt chest injury: right-to-left intracardiac shunt managed non-operatively
Y Kluger1, J H Morgan, C R Tullius
1Division of General Surgery, Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh.
The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon
|April 1, 1993
Abstract:
A case of patent foramen ovale with right-to-left intracardiac shunt after blunt chest injury is presented. The association of pulmonary contusion, pulmonary hypertension, and patent foramen ovale in a previously healthy subject is discussed. In such a case reduction of the afterload on the right ventricle is the suggested modality of treatment for hypoxemia due to the right-to-left shunt.