Successful percutaneous balloon occlusion of a large pulmonary arteriovenous malformation.
Percutaneous embolotherapy was carried out successfully in a 79 year old woman with a 56% shunt through a single pulmonary arteriovenous malformation.
Duggan
C J
CJ
Department of Thoracic Medicine, Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards, New South Wales, Australia.
Grinnell
V S
VS
Pigott
P C
PC
D000368:Aged; D001165:Arteriovenous Malformations / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*; D004621:Embolization, Therapeutic / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011667:Pulmonary Veins / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011859:Radiography