Huge arteriovenous malformation due to chronic infection.
Acquired pulmonary arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) related to chronic infections are extremely rare. We report a 32-year-old male patient having a huge pulmonary AVMs being fed with multi-systemic vascular divisions weeded in ascending aorta due to chronic infection. The AVMs were managed by combined intra-arterial embolization and surgical resection.
Sivrikoz
Muammer Cumhur
MC
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Gaziantep University Medical School, 27070 Kolejtepe, Gaziantep, Turkey.
Tunçözgür
Bülent
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Kervancioğlu
Selim
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Elbeyli
Levent
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