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CASE REPORT
Congestive hepatopathy secondary to large renal arteriovenous malformation
  1. Mohammad Khalife1,
  2. Walid Faraj1,
  3. Fatima Salah2,
  4. Ali A Haydar2
  1. 1Department of Surgery, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon
  2. 2Department of Diagnostic Radiology, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon
  1. Correspondence to Dr Ali Haydar, ah24{at}aub.edu.lb

Summary

A 75-year-old woman presented with acute onset dyspnoea, and was found to have signs of pulmonary congestion on clinical examination. Imaging revealed cardiomegaly and coincident congestive hepatopathy, secondary to a left renal arteriovenous malformation. The presence of a high flow vascular shunt in the left kidney was possibly the causative factor behind both the high-output cardiac failure and congestive hepatopathy.

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2012-007818

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