SMJ articles in the category "atrial septal defect"

Case Report

An Interesting Case of Positional Hypoxia: The Effect of Multiple Synergistic Pathological Conditions

Abstract:This report describes an elderly patient evaluated for generalized fatigue, dyspnea, presyncopal episodes, and positional hypoxemia. Workup revealed posturally related oxygen desaturation, a patent foramen ovale (PFO), an atrial septal aneurysm, and primary adrenal insufficiency. Normal intracardiac pressures and a right-to-left PFO shunt were present only while the patient was…

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Review Article

Patent Foramen Ovale: Assessment, Clinical Significance and Therapeutic Options

Foramen ovale plays an important function in the fetus but is of no physiologic significance after birth and closes in most individuals. In about one fourth of the population, however, foramen ovale remains open for life and has been associated with cerebrovascular accidents, especially in younger patients, presumably through paradoxical…

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