Postoperative Hemidiaphragmatic Paralysis and Platypnea-Orthodeoxia Syndrome

Micah T Long; Jeremy Grate; Kaitlyn V Bradley

doi:10.5005/jp-journals-10071-23934

Postoperative Hemidiaphragmatic Paralysis and Platypnea-Orthodeoxia Syndrome

Indian J Crit Care Med. 2021 Aug;25(8):951-953. doi: 10.5005/jp-journals-10071-23934.

Authors

Micah T Long¹, Jeremy Grate², Kaitlyn V Bradley³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anesthesiology, Division of Critical Care Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics, Madison, Wisconsin, United States.
² Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics, Madison, Wisconsin, United States.
³ Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics, Madison, Wisconsin, United States.

Abstract

Long MT, Grate J, Bradley KV. Postoperative Hemidiaphragmatic Paralysis and Platypnea-Orthodeoxia Syndrome. Indian J Crit Care Med 2021;25(8):951-953.

Keywords: Critical care; Echocardiography; Hypoxemia right to left shunt echocardiography; Hypoxia.