Osler-Weber-Rendu disease and pulmonary arteriovenous fistulas. Deterioration and embolotherapy during pregnancy.
Several reports have implicated pregnancy as a cause of deterioration in patients with pulmonary arteriovenous fistulas. We report a 27-year-old woman with multiple pulmonary arteriovenous fistulas who required coil spring embolotherapy in her 24th week of pregnancy due to a spontaneous hemothorax and hypoxemia.
Gammon
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Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Alabama, Birmingham.
Miksa
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Keller
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D000328:Adult; D001164:Arteriovenous Fistula / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy; D004621:Embolization, Therapeutic / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D006491:Hemothorax / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D011249:Pregnancy Complications, Cardiovascular / Q000628:therapy; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011667:Pulmonary Veins / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic; D012422:Rupture, Spontaneous; D013683:Telangiectasia, Hereditary Hemorrhagic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy