Open Access"Treatable" diffuse pulmonary arteriovenous fistula - An unusual cause
Author(s) -
Nagendra Boopathy Senguttuvan,
Jay I. Kumar,
Shyam Sunder Kothari
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
annals of pediatric cardiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.292
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 0974-2069
pISSN - 0974-5149
DOI - 10.4103/0974-2069.84660
Subject(s) - medicine , shunt (medical) , failure to thrive , fistula , heart failure , arteriovenous fistula , cardiology , radiology , surgery
A 4 year old boy was referred for evaluation of failure to thrive and mild cyanosis. He was found to have a structurally normal heart with evidence of microscopic pulmonary arterio-venous (AV) fistulae. Later, he was diagnosed to have congenital porto-systemic shunt, a very rare cause of pulmonary AV fistula.