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CASE REPORT
A rare case of congenital complex pulmonary AV fistula
  1. Akshyaya Pradhan1,
  2. Rashi Khare2,
  3. Rishi Sethi1
  1. 1Department of Cardiology, King George's Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
  2. 2King George's Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
  1. Correspondence to Dr Rashi Khare, rashimedicine{at}yahoo.com

Summary

A 15-year-old boy presented with central cyanosis with clubbing and dyspnoea on exertion. Cardiovascular examination did not reveal any abnormality. ECG was normal. Chest X-ray showed a normal sized heart with rounded opacities of variable size in the left upper lung field. Two-dimensional echocardiographic examination was normal. CT angiography showed a large complex lesion composed of serpiginous tubular structures involving the left upper and lingular lobe, suggestive of racemose tangle of blood vessels. A diagnosis of large complex arteriovenous (AV) fistula involving the left upper and lingular lobe was performed. This case reports a rare case of complex pulmonary AV fistula.

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