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Simultaneous treatment of pulmonary AV malformation with rheumatic heart disease
1Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Otemae Hospital, Osaka, Japan. haruhk@wa3.so-net.ne.jp
Abstract:
Only 13 cases of pulmonary arteriovenous malformation (PAVM) combined with rheumatic heart disease have been reported, and only 3 have been treated simultaneously by surgery. Transcatheter embolotherapy, the first-line treatment of PAVM, avoids major surgery, general anesthesia, and the loss of pulmonary parenchyma, but the subsequent PAVM reperfusion can occur through recanalization of the embolized arteries. We report a case of PAVM with rheumatic heart disease, in which both diseases were simultaneously treated by surgery.
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