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Kwonoh Park1, Changhwan Kim, Dal Soo Lim, Young Moo Ro, Jongwon Park, Seungyun Chun, Seungjin Lim, Hyunjung Cho, Sangho Lee, Sung Eun Kim.
Abstract
A pulmonary arteriovenous malformation (PAVM) is a rare pulmonary vascular anomaly presenting as dyspnea or recurrent epistaxis. Ebstein's anomaly (EA), a congenital cardiac malformation, is also a rare condition. There have been no reports concerning the co-existence of PAVM with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) and EA. A 40-year-old woman was admitted with a 2-month history of increasing dyspnea and several years of recurrent epistaxis. On transthoracic echocardiography, she was diagnosed with EA and agreed to undergo surgical treatment. A chest CT angiography showed a 12-mm serpiginous vascular structure suspicious for a PAVM and a liver CT suggested HTT. Although it is unclear whether or not a concurrent PAVM and EA have an embryologic or genetic relationship, we report a case of a PAVM with EA. Further genetic and embryonic studies are needed to identify a possible relationship of the two medical conditions.Entities:
Keywords: Arteriovenous malformation ration; Ebstein anomaly; Lung; Telangiectasia, hereditary hemorrhagic
Year: 2010 PMID: 21267394 PMCID: PMC3025345 DOI: 10.4070/kcj.2010.40.12.684
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Korean Circ J ISSN: 1738-5520 Impact factor: 3.243