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High-output heart failure due to hepatic arteriovenous fistula during pregnancy: a case report
B Gong1, L A Baken, T M Julian
1Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
Obstetrics and Gynecology
|September 1, 1988
Abstract:
A 32-year-old multiparous gravida presented at 38 weeks' gestation with a second pregnancy complicated by congestive heart failure. Through noninvasive testing, hepatic arteriovenous malformation was diagnosed as the etiologic factor. This has not been reported as a cause of heart failure in pregnancy, although arteriovenous malformations in other organs have been associated with this complication.