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Pulmonary Arteriovenous Malformations [PDF]

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2014
Within the past decade, pulmonary arteriovenous malformations (PAVMs) have evolved from rare curiosities to not uncommon clinical states, with the latest estimates suggesting a prevalence of ~1 in 2,600. PAVMs provide anatomic right-to-left shunts, allowing systemic venous blood to bypass gas exchange and pulmonary capillary bed processing.
Claire L Shovlin
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Surgical lobectomy of pulmonary arteriovenous malformations in a patient with presentations regarded as sequela of tuberculosis: a case report

open access: yesJournal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, 2020
Background Pulmonary arteriovenous malformations are uncommon conditions of abnormal communications between pulmonary arteries and veins, which are most commonly congenital in nature.
Peng Teng, Weidong Li, Yiming Ni
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A catheter-based interventional strategy redirects hepatic vein flows after Fontan procedure in left isomerism to treat severe hypoxemia

open access: yesAnnals of Pediatric Cardiology, 2022
Pulmonary arteriovenous malformations after the Kawashima procedure causing severe hypoxemia are treated by Fontan surgery that redirects hepatic venous blood to the pulmonary circulation.
Kothandam Sivakumar
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Pulmonary arteriovenous malformation

open access: yesJournal of the Belgian Society of Radiology, 2011
A 37-year old patient with Rendu-Osler-Weber syndrome presented to our hospital with hypoxy.
Janssens, E   +4 more
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Bronchoscopy-guided removal of intrabronchial coil migration after coil embolization of pulmonary arteriovenous malformation

open access: yesRadiology Case Reports, 2022
Pulmonary arteriovenous malformations develop in approximately 50% of hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia patients. Pulmonary arteriovenous malformations are often treated with coil embolization therapy.
Theodore X. Hu, MPhil   +2 more
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Pulmonary arteriovenous malformations presenting with upper back pain in an adult: A case report and literature review

open access: yesRadiology Case Reports, 2021
Pulmonary arteriovenous malformations (PAVMs) are the abnormal connections between the pulmonary artery and pulmonary veins branches without intervening in the pulmonary vascular bed.
Habib Ahmad Esmat, Mohammad Tahir Aien
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Impact of pulmonary arteriovenous malformations on respiratory-related quality of life in patients with hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2014
Fifteen to fifty percent of patients with hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia have pulmonary arteriovenous malformations. The objective of this study was to measure the effect of the presence of pulmonary arteriovenous malformations and of their ...
Sandra Blivet   +5 more
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Giant pulmonary arteriovenous malformation [PDF]

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, 2004
A 44-year-old man was admitted with coughing and dyspnea for 3 weeks. Chest radiography and thoracic CT scanning confirmed a huge left lung arteriovenous malformation (Fig. 1). Due to a prohibitively high operative risk, he was investigated with pulmonary angiography in preparation for embolization therapy (Fig. 2). The patient subsequently refused all
Sihoe, ADL   +3 more
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Hemangioma – A pointer to Abernethy syndrome?

open access: yesAnnals of Pediatric Cardiology, 2020
Diffuse pulmonary arteriovenous malformations or pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) may result from congenital portosystemic venous shunts. Hemangioma as a physical sign of congenital portosystemic shunts (like Abernethy syndrome) has not been ...
Shyam S Kothari
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Emergency hepatectomy for hepatic arteriovenous malformation combined with pulmonary hypertension in an infant

open access: yesJournal of Pediatric Surgery Case Reports, 2015
Patients with hepatic arteriovenous malformations rarely present with pulmonary hypertension. We report the case of a 3-month-old boy who developed severe pulmonary hypertension due to a hepatic arteriovenous malformation.
Naruhiko Murase   +8 more
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