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SUBMITTER: Larson SR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7262979 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan-Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of investigative medicine high impact case reports 20200101
Platypnea orthodeoxia syndrome (POS) occurs when an upright position results in acute-onset hypoxemia and is relieved with recumbency. POS can be due to intracardiac shunting, intrapulmonary shunting, ventilation-perfusion mismatch, or a combination of these. We report a case of POS that developed 3 days post liver transplantation as a result of new-onset right to left shunting across a patent foramen ovale. Right heart catheterization revealed a posteriorly directed inferior vena cava likely du ...[more]