Cardiac shunt in COPD as a cause of severe hypoxaemia: probably not so uncommon after all

Eur Respir J. 2011 Apr;37(4):960-2. doi: 10.1183/09031936.00058410.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Coronary Circulation
  • Dyspnea / therapy
  • Echocardiography / methods
  • Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / complications*
  • Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / physiopathology
  • Hemodynamics
  • Humans
  • Hypertension, Pulmonary / etiology*
  • Hypoxia / etiology*
  • Male
  • Oxygen / metabolism
  • Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / complications*
  • Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / therapy*

Substances

  • Oxygen