Postoperative pulmonary arteriovenous fistula resulting in recurrent cryptogenic stroke

Item Type:	Article
Title:	Postoperative pulmonary arteriovenous fistula resulting in recurrent cryptogenic stroke
Creators Name:	Fateh-Moghadam, S. and Dietz, R. and Bocksch, W.
Abstract:	We report on a 66-year-old patient with a history of two cryptogenic strokes and a patent foramen ovale (PFO) who received a transcatheter closure of his PFO in our institution, but shortly after the intervention there was still a relevant right-to-left shunt. The following work-up showed an isolated pulmonary arteriovenous fistula as the real cause for the right-to-left shunt and hence the two strokes.
Keywords:	Pulmonary arteriovenous fistula, Cryptogenic stroke, Transcatheter closure of a persistent foramen ovale, Contrast echocardiography
Source:	International Journal of Cardiology
ISSN:	0167-5273
Publisher:	Elsevier
Volume:	117
Number:	1
Page Range:	e43-e45
Date:	12 April 2007
Official Publication:	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcard.2006.11.033
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