• Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg · Nov 2019

    Case Reports

    Platypnoea-orthodeoxia syndrome after pulmonary lobectomy: a rare entity with a difficult diagnosis.

    • Athanasios Krasas, Afroditi Tzifa, Dimitrios Mallios, and Kosmas Iliadis.
    • Department of Thoracic Surgery, "HYGEIA" Hospital, Athens, Greece.
    • Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg. 2019 Nov 1; 29 (5): 811-812.

    AbstractPlatypnoea-orthodeoxia syndrome (POS) is a rare clinical entity. It is characterized by position-dependent dyspnoea and oxygen desaturation in the upright position with orthodeoxia resolving in the supine position, and is mainly associated with cardiac defects. Only 9 cases of post-lobectomy POS have been reported in the literature. We describe a case of POS in a woman who underwent a lobectomy and in whom POS was diagnosed and treated.© The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. All rights reserved.

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