[Diangosis and treatment of pulmonary arteriovenous fistula in infancy (author's transl)].
Pulmonary arteriovenous fistulas are seldom diagnosed in infancy because of few signs and symptoms in early life. The clinical picture is due to the right-to-left shunt and includes dyspnea, cyanosis, polycythemia, clubbing, and murmur over the fistula. The diagnosis can be suspected by demonstration of a typical density on chest X-ray. It can be established by angiocardiography. Because of the life-threatening complications resectional treatment is recommended already in infancy. A case is reported, diagnosed on the second day of life by angiocardiography and treated 3 months later by lobectomy.
D000293:Adolescent; D001164:Arteriovenous Fistula / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D001165:Arteriovenous Malformations / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D011651:Pulmonary Artery; D011667:Pulmonary Veins
Diagnose und Therapie der pulmonalen arterio-venösen Fistel im Säuglingsalter