title: Postoperative pulmonary arteriovenous fistula resulting in recurrent cryptogenic stroke.
abstract: We report on a 66-year-old patient with a history of two cryptogenic strokes and a patent foramen ovale (PFO) who received a transcatheter closure of his PFO in our institution, but shortly after the intervention there was still a relevant right-to-left shunt. The following work-up showed an isolated pulmonary arteriovenous fistula as the real cause for the right-to-left shunt and hence the two strokes.
authors.forename: Suzanne
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fateh-Moghadam
authors.forename: Rainer
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Dietz
authors.forename: Wolfgang
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Bocksch
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001164:Arteriovenous Fistula / Q000209:etiology*; D005763:Gastroenterostomy / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006344:Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000002:abnormalities*; D011667:Pulmonary Veins / Q000002:abnormalities*; D012008:Recurrence; D020521:Stroke / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D016896:Treatment Outcome