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ArticleClinical medicine (London, England)2020

An unusual case of persisting hypoxia in a patient with a thrombolysed pulmonary embolism.

Sanjoy Ray, Shakeel A Qureshi, Natalie Stolagiewicz, Lydia Sturridge, Sitara Khan

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Article in Clinical medicine (London, England), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 authors.

Sanjoy RayFrimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, Camberley, UK drsanjoyray@yahoo.com.
Shakeel A QureshiEvelina London Children's Hospital, London, UK.
Natalie StolagiewiczFrimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, Camberley, UK.
Lydia SturridgeFrimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, Camberley, UK.
Sitara KhanFrimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, Camberley, UK.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Exertional breathlessness and hypoxia are common presenting complaints in acute medicine. We describe a case where the patient continued to have persistent hypoxia even after the primary cause (pulmonary embolism) was diagnosed and treated. The hypoxia persisted as an enigma, its cause remaining elusive till diagnosed. Standard first-line investigations would not have reached the underlying diagnosis in this case and, as such, it demonstrates the keen clinical sense and complex investigative strategy required to solve the puzzle.

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Foramen Ovale, PatentPulmonary EmbolismDyspneaHumansHypoxiaechocardiographyHypoxiaorthodeoxiaplatypnoeapulmonary embolism

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PMID33199327
PMCPMC7687320

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