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Fırat Tıp Dergisi
2018, Cilt 23, Sayı 3, Sayfa(lar) 154-157
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A Case of Pulmonary Arteriovenous Malformation
Figen DEVECİ1, Gamze KIRKIL1, Erdal İN1, Teyfik TURGUT1, Ayşe Murat AYDIN2, Mutlu KULUÖZTÜRK3
1Fırat Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Göğüs Hastalıkları Anabilim Dalı, Elazığ, Türkiye
2Fırat Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Radyoloji Anabilim Dalı, Elazığ, Türkiye
3Sağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi Elazığ Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, Göğüs Hastalıkları Kliniği, Elazığ, Türkiye

Pulmonary Arteriovenous Malformations (AVMs) are rarely seen direct abnormal communications between pulmonary arteries and pulmonary veins. It is usually congenital. Lesions may appear as a single isolated anomaly but most AVMs occur in individuals with hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia. The cases may be asymptomatic. The classic radiological images on PA chest X-ray reveal round, smooth, and limited lesions. Together with the gold standard pulmonary angiography, chest X-ray, computed tomography with contrast and contrast echocardiography are another diagnostic tools used in diagnosis. We present a case of pulmonary AVM together with the literature knowledge due to its rare occurrence, which is a single isolated lesion with normal physical examination findings, admitted to our outpatient department with a complaint of upper respiratory tract infection, in a 51-year-old man.

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