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Orthodeoxia--an uncommon presentation following bilateral thoracic sympathectomy.

van Heerden PV, Cameron PD, Karanovic A, Goodman MA.

Departments of Intensive Care and Vascular Surgery, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Pharmacology Unit, School of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia.

We present a case of orthodeoxia (postural hypoxaemia) which resulted from a combination of lung collapse/consolidation and blunted hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction due to partial interruption of the sympathetic nerve supply to the lung by bilateral thoracic sympathectomy.

Publication Types: 
Case Reports

PMID: 14601286 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] 

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