A case of multiple pulmonary arteriovenous fistulas with Rendu-Osler Weber disease.
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Brain abscess caused by pulmonary arteriovenous fistulas without Rendu-Osler-Weber disease.
A 52-year-old man was admitted with a brain abscess in the left basal ganglia. He had a paradoxical brain embolic mechanism owing to a pulmonary arteriovenous fistula (PAVF) and was diagnosed as having a right-to-left shunt by transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) and transcranial color Doppler (TCD) with saline contrast medium. We determined that the brain abscess was caused by the PAVFs with...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of the Japanese Association for Chest Surgery
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0919-0945,1881-4158
DOI: 10.2995/jacsurg.10.634