Uncommon cause of persistent hypoxia in a patient with obstructive sleep apnea

Subodh Kumar Mahto; Pankaj Kumar Gupta; Pritam Majumdar; Gwenette Andrea War; Vishakha Mittal; Atul Goel

doi:10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_3_19

Uncommon cause of persistent hypoxia in a patient with obstructive sleep apnea

J Family Med Prim Care. 2019 Feb;8(2):763-765. doi: 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_3_19.

Authors

Subodh Kumar Mahto¹, Pankaj Kumar Gupta¹, Pritam Majumdar², Gwenette Andrea War², Vishakha Mittal¹, Atul Goel²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, PGIMER, Dr. RML Hospital, New Delhi, India.
² Department of Medicine, Smt. Sucheta Kriplani Hospital and LHMC, New Delhi, India.

Abstract

We report a case of hypothyroidism, obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) with persistent daytime hypoxemia. Cause of hypoxemia was two arteriovenous (AV) malformations in the lower lobe of the lung. We must be alert to other causes of hypoxemia in patients of OSA with persistent daytime hypoxemia.

Keywords: Hypoxemia; obstructive sleep apnoea; pulmonary AV malformations.

Publication types

Case Reports