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Pulmonary arteriovenous fistula drainage into the left atrium
T Tirilomis1, T Busch, I Aleksic
1Department of Thoracic, Cardiac, and Vascular Surgery, Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany.
The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon
|April 11, 2000
Abstract:
Arteriovenous fistulas with venous drainage into the left atrium are a rare anomaly. Although the etiology of pulmonary arteriovenous fistulas is unknown, these abnormalities are considered to have occurred during early fetal development. A case of this malformation in a 72-year-old woman successfully treated by surgery is described.