Congestive hepatopathy secondary to large renal arteriovenous malformation.
A 75-year-old woman presented with acute onset dyspnoea, and was found to have signs of pulmonary congestion on clinical examination. Imaging revealed cardiomegaly and coincident congestive hepatopathy, secondary to a left renal arteriovenous malformation. The presence of a high flow vascular shunt in the left kidney was possibly the causative factor behind both the high-output cardiac failure and congestive hepatopathy.
Department of Surgery,  American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut,  Lebanon.
Mohammad
M
Khalife
Walid
W
Faraj
Fatima
F
Salah
Ali A
AA
Haydar
D000368:Aged; D001165:Arteriovenous Malformations / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional; D007668:Kidney / Q000098:blood supply*; D008107:Liver Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D011859:Radiography; D012077:Renal Artery / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging