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Unusual complications after embolization of a pulmonary arteriovenous malformation
T Haitjema1, J M ten Berg, T T Overtoom
1Department of Pulmonology, St. Antonius Hospital, Nieuwegein, The Netherlands.
Chest
|May 1, 1996
Abstract:
A pulmonary arteriovenous malformation was embolized in a patient with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia. Several unusual complications, including early deflation of a detachable balloon, migration of a coil, and development of severe pulmonary hypertension, occurred. Pulmonary hypertension was attributed to a coexistent left-to-right shunt caused by a large hepatic arteriovenous malformation.