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Postpneumonectomy interatrial right-to-left shunt: successful percutaneous treatment
1Hôpital Cardiologique and Clinique Chirurgicale, Hôpital Calmette, Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Lille, France.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|October 6, 1997
Abstract:
This report describes the case of a 67-year-old man in whom atrial right-to-left shunt developed after a right pneumonectomy, leading to dyspnea with severe arterial desaturation. Transcatheter occlusion of the patent foramen ovale was successfully performed using a buttoned device. Review of literature and mechanisms of these atrial right-to-left shunts are discussed.