• BMJ case reports · Jan 2014

    Case Reports

    Platypnoea orthodeoxia after hepatic surgery.

    • Muhammad Asrar ul Haq, Vivek Mutha, Ahmed Al-Kaisey, and William J van Gaal.
    • Department of Cardiology, The Northern Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
    • BMJ Case Rep. 2014 Jan 1;2014.

    AbstractPlatypnoea orthodeoxia is a rare clinical syndrome characterised by dyspnoea and deoxygenation exhibited in upright position with improvement in supine posture. Previously described aetiologies include cardiac (pericardial effusion or constrictive pericarditis), pulmonary (pneumonectomy, emphysema or amiodarone toxicity), abdominal (cirrhosis or ileus) or vascular (abdominal aortic aneurysm) causes. We report an unusual case of platypnoea orthodeoxia associated with patent foramen ovale and partial hepatic resection.

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