Farra H, Balzer D T
Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, St. Louis Children's Hospital, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.
Pediatr Cardiol. 2005 Sep-Oct;26(5):683-5. doi: 10.1007/s00246-004-0857-4.
Pulmonary arteriovenous malformation (AVM) is a rare entity with well-described signs, symptoms, and complications. Pulmonary AVMs can be congenital or acquired. They have been described in the setting of severe liver disease and after palliation with a Glenn shunt in which the hepatic venous blood flow has been excluded from the pulmonary blood flow. A variety of surgical and transcatheter interventions have been used to occlude AVMs. We report the use of the Amplatzer vascular plug to successfully occlude a pulmonary AVM in a 12-year-old patient.
肺动静脉畸形（AVM）是一种罕见的疾病，其体征、症状和并发症已有详尽描述。肺AVM可分为先天性或后天性。在严重肝病患者以及采用格林分流术进行姑息治疗（即肝静脉血流被排除在肺血流之外）的患者中均有肺AVM的报道。多种外科手术和经导管介入治疗已被用于封堵AVM。我们报告了使用Amplatzer血管封堵器成功封堵一名12岁患者肺AVM的病例。
