"Treatable" diffuse pulmonary arteriovenous fistula - An unusual cause

• Päätekijät: Nagendra Boopathy Senguttuvan (Tekijä), Jay Kumar (Tekijä), Shyam Sunder Kothari (Tekijä)
• Aineistotyyppi: Kirja
• Julkaistu: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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A 4 year old boy was referred for evaluation of failure to thrive and mild cyanosis. He was found to have a structurally normal heart with evidence of microscopic pulmonary arterio-venous (AV) fistulae. Later, he was diagnosed to have congenital porto-systemic shunt, a very rare cause of pulmonary A...