[Pulmonary embolism and right diaphragmatic paralysis: "one train can hide another"]

C Charbonnel; P V Ennezat; J Darchis; J L Auffray; J J Bauchart; J M Aubert; F Godart; P Goldstein; P Asseman

[Pulmonary embolism and right diaphragmatic paralysis: "one train can hide another"]

Arch Mal Coeur Vaiss. 2007 Jan;100(1):61-3.

[Article in French]

Authors

C Charbonnel¹, P V Ennezat, J Darchis, J L Auffray, J J Bauchart, J M Aubert, F Godart, P Goldstein, P Asseman

Affiliation

¹ Service des urgences et soins inten- sifs cardiologiques.

PMID: 17405556

Abstract

The authors report the case of an 84 year old woman admitted for a mild pulmonary embolism associated with severe hypoxaemia. The association of a right diaphragmatic paralysis with renewed patency of a foramenovale and creation of a right-to-left shunt is probably an underestimated cause of refractory hypoxaemia.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Aged, 80 and over
Blood Pressure
Diaphragm*
Echocardiography, Transesophageal
Female
Humans
Hypoxia / physiopathology
Paralysis / diagnostic imaging
Paralysis / etiology*
Pulmonary Embolism / complications*
Pulmonary Embolism / diagnostic imaging
Pulmonary Embolism / physiopathology
Radiography, Thoracic