Post-traumatic thoracic arteriovenous fistulas.
Post-traumatic arteriovenous fistulas (AVF) between vascular structures in the thorax rarely occur. We present an unusual case of the delayed diagnosis of two post-traumatic thoracic AVF in a 70-year-old male. He had abnormal communications between an intercostal artery and an intercostal vein as well as an intercostal artery and a pulmonary vein. He has remained asymptomatic and has not developed a complication from these abnormal vascular structures in a three-year follow up.
Pooyan
Payam
P
Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Mountain Home, TN 37684-4000, USA.
Shah
Lata
L
Goli
Sujatha
S
Byrd
Ryland P
RP
Roy
Thomas M
TM
D000058:Accidental Falls; D000368:Aged; D001164:Arteriovenous Fistula / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D019567:Back Injuries / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011667:Pulmonary Veins / Q000002:abnormalities*; D013895:Thoracic Arteries / Q000002:abnormalities*; D013898:Thoracic Injuries / Q000150:complications; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed