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Platypnea-orthodeoxia due to fat embolism

Platypnea-orthodeoxia is an uncommon syndrome that is characterized by dyspnea relieved by recumbency and deoxygenation following a change from a recumbent to an upright posture. We herein describe a case of platypnea-orthodeoxia in a 75-year-old man after a surgical restoration of a bitrochanteric...

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Main Authors: Gourgiotis, Stavros, Aloizos, Stavros, Gakis, Christos, Salemis, Nikolaos S.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2011
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3199624/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22096710
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijscr.2011.02.015
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