Severe hypoxemia in a case of midgut carcinoid tumor

✍ Scribed by R. Robert; C. Matuchansky; F. Picker; P. Guitton; D. Patte

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 147 KB
• Volume: 15
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1432-1238
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00273569

✦ Synopsis

A 33-year-old woman treated for carcinoid tumor developed severe hypoxaemia. This hypoxaemia may have been related to an extracardiac right-to-left shunt. The pathogenic role of vasoactive agents is discussed and comparisons made with cirrhosis-associated hypoxaemia.