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Acquired systemic-to-pulmonary arteriovenous malformation secondary to Mycobacterium tuberculosis empyema
Chadrick E Denlinger1, Thomas M Egan, David R Jones
1Department of Surgery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville 22908-0679, USA.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|October 29, 2002
Abstract:
Pulmonary arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) with systemic arterial collateralization related to a prior tuberculosis empyema are extremely rare. We report the case of a 15-year-old boy who developed a pulmonary AVM with massive systemic arterial collateralization 5 years after being treated for a Mycobacterium tuberculosis empyema necessitans. The AVM was successfully managed with combined intraarterial embolization and surgical resection.